Seanad debates

Friday, 27 March 2015

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed)

 

10:30 am

Photo of Rónán MullenRónán Mullen (Independent) | Oireachtas source

The human rights committee in general comment 17 of the 35th session of the committee in 1989 stated in respect of the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights that "No child should be separated from his or her mother". We are talking about scenarios in the future involving potential father-father arrangements. Parents, evidently, encompass in that scenario at least a mother.

I am responding to the accusation that there has been a misinterpretation of the UNCRC, but those who made the accusation have misinterpreted it. When read in conjunction with the travaux préparatoireI cited, it shows that "parents" was always intended as a reference to the child's mother and father. It was the criticiser's research that did not go beyond highlighting points-----

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