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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (18 Jan 2024)

Michael McNamara: 250. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality how many of the 3,285 persons who arrived to Dublin Airport without a valid identity document in 2023 were under the age of 16; coming from or embarking for a place in the State, Great Britain or Northern Ireland; a citizen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland or a person who has established a right in...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (18 Jan 2024)

Michael McNamara: 251. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality how many of the 3,285 persons who arrived to Dublin Airport without a valid identity document In 2023 did not seek international protection. [2233/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (18 Jan 2024)

Michael McNamara: 252. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality how many of the 3,285 persons who arrived to Dublin Airport without a valid identity document were refused leave to enter the State. [2234/24]

An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Michael McNamara: At this stage, maybe it is important to remember what is being proposed to be removed from the Constitution. It is that the State shall endeavour to ensure that mothers shall not be obliged by economic necessity to engage in labour to the neglect of their duties in the home. A friend of mine with whom I went to primary school and I were sitting back over Christmas discussing life generally...

An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Michael McNamara: By reference to the constitutions that existed in Europe at the time, it was a very forward-looking Constitution. Many, not all, aspects of it are still forward-looking and can be interpreted in a manner that is relevant to modern life. This is one of the aspects of it that is not but equally, it is one of the aspects of it that has been interpreted to be virtually meaningless because I...

An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Michael McNamara: Without what?

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Michael McNamara: Would siblings who live together and have done for their entire life be covered?

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Michael McNamara: Yes, we do-----

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Michael McNamara: -----but we also had established case law to say that potentially polygamous marriages were incompatible and that changed because the courts can change their case law. Deputy Bacik knows that better than most that it changed very recently, in H.A.H. v.S.A.A.-----

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Michael McNamara: -----where potentially polygamous marriages were found to be incompatible. I think the Minister would acknowledge that. The courts found they were no longer incompatible because of a move in what we accepted as morally acceptable.

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Michael McNamara: I cannot accept Deputy Bacik's interventions.

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Michael McNamara: We are making a change.

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Michael McNamara: The reality is that we have absolutely no idea how this will be interpreted by the courts. We are making a change for the sake of it.

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Michael McNamara: Durable will mean durable unless the durable relationship is a polygamous one, in which case it is durable but we are not going to recognise it because we do not like its durability.

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Michael McNamara: I simply do not understand which durable relationships will and will not be recognised. Are we saying durable but not polygamous? If that is what we are saying in what we are voting for, does that include all durable relationships? That is what we are voting on. All durable relationships will, by definition, have to include both polygamous and monogamous durable relationships. I do not...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Michael McNamara: Are we saying that some marriages are moral institutions and some are not? Are we saying that those are that are monogamous are and those that are polygamous are not, even though they are, of course, moral institutions in other countries protected by-----

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Michael McNamara: Equally it could be-----

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Michael McNamara: Homosexual relationships were moral institutions but were illegal in Irish law, and they were struck down. Just because something is-----

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Michael McNamara: We changed the Constitution, but before we did so the laws were changed and we had the Norris case in the Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights.

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Michael McNamara: Just because something is not envisaged at a particular time does not mean that when we change the Constitution we change the meaning of the institutions. The Minister said he wanted to expand the protections for relationships that can avail of the shield of the family. The Minister wants to expand them, and I do not have a problem with that, but I want to understand where the Minister sees...