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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)

Roderic O'Gorman: In terms of locating the obligation within the family, the approach was adopted because of the particularly onerous and ongoing nature of the care that is provided by so many family carers and the absolute level of support that gives the State. The role of the Meals on Wheels volunteer is, of course, vital in society but I am not sure we can equate that laudable value of a voluntary role...

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)

Roderic O'Gorman: ..., it is a recognition that the achievement of the obligation is progressive. It will not be, nor does anyone believe it will be, solved immediately. The obligation of the State to support family carers, if this amendment is made, will be in our Constitution. It is a progressive obligation recognising the degrees of support need to increase. However, fundamentally, that is a legal...

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)

Bríd Smith: ...family. This is really important because on a daily basis this State lets people down in terms of its care, but that is not done within the family, it is done outside the family. We have family carers who have minded their parents all their lives. I use the example of Cherry Orchard Hospital where people are being forcibly moved from the wards and are being put into private nursing...

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)

Ivana Bacik: ...the missing piece. Time and again during our extensive committee hearings, we heard from older people, disabled persons and persons who receive support and care from a whole range of different carers in a whole range of different settings and the concern was that an exclusionary definition of care would not provide sufficient valuing of the immense work that carers do, both paid and...

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)

Roderic O'Gorman: As I will continue to argue, it is far more robust than Article 41.2 which has achieved absolutely nothing for mothers or anybody else in our society. On the use of the words "care" and "carers", this was done very deliberately because there are two or more people in any care-based relationship. Using the word "care" reflects the view of many disability advocates who had expressed...

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)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...of the family must step back from full-time work or from the workplace altogether. There are supports in place to help families manage the care needs of their loved ones, including family leave for parents and carer's leave. These have been extended during the period of this Government but, undoubtedly, we need to do more. This Government needs to do more and, importantly, future...

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)

Mattie McGrath: ...a chur ina n-ionad: “The State recognises that the provision of care, by members of a family to one another by reason of the bonds that exist among them, gives to Society a support without which the common good cannot be achieved, and shall strive to support such provision. The State shall, therefore, endeavour to ensure that family carers shall not be obliged by economic...

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)

Catherine Connolly: ...That has not been answered. The second is that, "The amendments (as currently worded) will not deliver meaningful enforceable rights and stronger constitutional protection for women, families and carers - as well as other groups who experience discrimination and disadvantage, such as people with disabilities. Instead, they are focussed on symbolic recognition alone." The Minister is...

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)

Marian Harkin: ...Constitution. I will do so with reservations but sometimes you have to look at the bigger picture and the greater good. All my political life, I have campaigned for adequate support for family carers and all that entails. Family carers, I have always said, along with volunteers, are the glue that holds our society together. They allow our societies, as we have constructed them, to...

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)

Mick Barry: ...rather than "gives to the State a support", is deliberate. If it stated "gives to the State a support", it would, at the very least, strongly imply a legal obligation on the State with relation to improving the carer's allowance, childcare provision and rights thereto and improving care services for the elderly, people with disabilities and others. Therefore, the Government has quite...

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)

Mick Barry: ...get it but now the Government is saying they will not, not for now in any case. That is an absolutely disgraceful position. It is part of this debate because it shows the Government's attitude towards carers and the failure in the proposed amendment to deliver a legal obligation to provide a better life for people who care, who are overwhelmingly women. Getting rid of the...

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)

Paul Murphy: ...the Government to replace this section. Having such poor wording, which is correctly open to strong criticism, as we will make, not only misses an opportunity to make a meaningful difference for carers in this country, but also endangers this referendum and the prospect of removing the odious women in the home clause from the Constitution. I appeal, even at this late stage, to the...

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)

Sorca Clarke: ...care or provider or care, cannot be here. They are tuned in online and on television. My party sees them, has their back, stands with them and wants to ensure their voices are heard. Every day, carers the length and breadth of Ireland perform an invaluable role that far too often goes unrecognised by Government. They are tired and exhausted and they feel strung along by platitudes...

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)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...have a very different relationship to care. We take it seriously as a people compared with some other countries where I have lived. That can be seen in the fact that we have 299,000 unpaid carers in Ireland. That number has been growing for the last number of years. The wording of the amendment from the Social Democrats is such that it recognises the contribution of these carers. They...

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)

Seán Sherlock: ...as a society. That opportunity has been missed. The Labour Party amendment and similar amendments before us seek to push out the envelope to reflect the fact that there are now more than 299,000 carers in this country who could benefit from the wording proposed in those amendments. Just as we had much discussion on the definition of "durable relationships", I suspect we will come back...

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)

Bríd Smith: ...organisations that worked hard on this, swallowed a hard pill,and accepted in good faith that it is a step in the right direction. However, there is a "but", and it is a big one because family carers and carers outside of the home are treated so badly by the State. The State says it. We recognise that this care "gives to the State a support without which the common good cannot be...

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)

Ivana Bacik: ...should be recognised and valued both within the home and in the wider community. That was very clear in their recommendations and we took that up, explored it, had extensive engagement with different groupings – carers, women’s groups, groups representing disabled persons. We had extensive engagement and with cross-party support we devised a wording which we regarded as...