Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)

I do not wish to be antagonistic. However, I am disappointed that the people who tabled this amendment do not appear to accept my bona fides when I state that the legal advice the Government received from the Attorney General is such that it cannot cross the line in respect of the distinction between marriage and civil partnership. This is either a debate about semantics or it is about something else entirely.