Rónán Mullen (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am asking the Minister to answer the question I put, which is whether such a decision by a service provider - this is an amendment about freedom of conscience among other things for educators and service providers included - would be discrimination in her view on the gender ground or on the sexual orientation ground because that will be germane to the issue of how this amendment might be interpreted by the courts in dealing with any future dispute. I am doing my job as a legislator by asking what the likely scenario would be. If the Government is serious enough to put a referendum before the people it should have the homework done to give us the answer the that question.