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An Bille up an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: An Dara Céim - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...full potential. The work of people who provide care in the wider community is also hugely important to Irish society. Paid care workers and care enterprises provide important supports to unpaid carers. However, it would present a significant anomaly to identify and enshrine the rights of one cohort of workers and potentially their private sector employers and private commercial...

An Bille up an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: An Dara Céim - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...out the courts I just mentioned, have been open to interpreting the Constitution as a living document and a woman in the home would have to be a man or a woman in the home, whoever is the primary carer. Unfortunately, it has never been tested. Judges themselves have expressed surprise. Mr. Justice Hogan has expressed great surprise that this particular article was never tested because...

An Bille up an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: An Dara Céim - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Joan Collins: ...to stay in the home. I was very startled by the fact that I had to do something like that in respect of our home. I therefore welcome the 39th and 40th amendments. This is an obvious letdown for carers in Ireland, but these measures with regard to the family and a woman's place in the home should be welcomed. We should not be too self-congratulatory. Parts of our Constitution are...

An Bille up an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: An Dara Céim - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...and that it was not something we pushed for in the end because it was incapable of being defined. Family care and supporting care in general is a very strong political philosophy for me. I have been a family carer caring for a very sick child for a number of years. I remain alive to the changing circumstances that could require me to go back to that full-time caring role. I was...

An Bille up an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: An Dara Céim - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Verona Murphy: ...wording proposes to insert a reference to family care in the Constitution. When the Government was formed in 2020, it produced the programme for Government and therein included a reference to a pension solution for carers. I have raised the pension rights of carers on this floor many times. We are three and half years into the lifetime of the Government. Although a limited pension...

An Bille up an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: An Dara Céim - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Mick Barry: ...a major row-back it is. It is a major row-back because a commitment, and referencing a debt owed by the State, would mean a legal obligation. That legal obligation would open the door to improved carer's allowance, improved foster care allowance, provision of better childcare and provision of better services for the elderly, people with disabilities and many others. The Minister of...

An Bille up an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: An Dara Céim - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

James Browne: ...is provided on an unpaid and voluntary basis, and which is often daily demanding and for some, unending in its need. Article 42B would also affirm that the State shall strive to support family carers. While there are those who might argue that this is merely tokenistic and will have no hold over Government policy, that is not the case. Ireland would, perhaps, be the first country in the...

An Bille up an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: An Dara Céim - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...only recognises care within the family whereas we tried to recognise care more widely than in the family, as did the citizens' assembly. This proposal is not sufficient to strengthen the rights of carers. The Minister's use of language such as "strive to" jumped out at me. Everybody is asking where that term come from. I asked the Minister when he gave us a presentation on the Bill...

An Bille up an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: An Dara Céim - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Holly Cairns: ...wording makes the provision gender-neutral but still restricts the value of care only to the family, it is just symbolic. What tangible change will this referendum make to the rights of women and carers? Will there be such a change? If so, I am genuinely interested in hearing it. There are more than 299,000 unpaid carers in Ireland. That figure has grown by 53% in just six years....

An Bille up an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: An Dara Céim - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Seán Sherlock: ...their care at home or in school, or for people with disabilities or older people seeking to live independent lives. The recognition of family care alone is not sufficient to strengthen the rights of carers and to ensure substantive improvements in law and policy i.e. measures which would improve the lives of carers. In fact, it could be seen as a constitutional endorsement of thestatus...

An Bille up an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: An Dara Céim - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Sorca Clarke: I very much welcome the debate here this afternoon and the opportunity to contribute to it. Carers, be they women or men, play an absolutely crucial role in Irish society, yet too often their work goes unrecognised. Whether it is a lone parent, someone caring for an elderly relative or a relative with a disability, or someone raising young children, people from all kinds of families and all...

An Bille up an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: An Dara Céim - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...and agreed broadly with the recommendations of the 1996 review group. The second report of the Convention on the Constitution, which carried out its work between 2012 and 2014, also recommended to amend Article 41.2 to be gender-neutral and to include carers. The Task Force on the Implementation of the Recommendations of the Second Report of the Convention on the Constitution was...