Seanad debates

Friday, 27 March 2015

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Comhionannas Pósta) 2015: Céim an Choiste - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Marriage Equality) Bill 2015: Committee Stage

 

10:30 am

Photo of Jim WalshJim Walsh (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

-----be it my ideology or someone else's. I endeavour to do so. Nothing will change the natural biological differences, but I am concerned that what we are doing will have a fundamental effect on children and their prospects. I have identified those issues and will not repeat them.

The Government has shown scant regard for the democratic institutions of the Republic. The routine guillotining of Bills in the Houses without adequate debate is unprecedented. The Minister was the distinguished Leader of the Opposition in the previous Seanad, when I recall only one Bill being guillotined. It is now a routine feature in both Houses. The dismantling of democratic institutions and systems, rather than simply reforming or improving them to better serve the people's interests, the abolition of town councils, the attempt to abolish this House and now the ultimate betrayal of our constitutional requirement to be fair and balanced in respecting the independent voice of people in a referendum are not good enough.

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