Rónán Mullen (Independent)

We have had complicated situations in the past about prime ministerial consorts which need not detain the House at this hour of night. It would make a mockery of our laws on marriage if they were to be subjected to the lowest common denominator of marriage laws internationally. It would also mean that to redefine marriage in Ireland all that would be needed would be for a same-sex couple to go abroad and contract to a marriage - so-called - in the jurisdiction where there is a thing called same-sex marriage. Such amendments make no sense as they would mean that our laws have no coherence.