Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to bring forward legislation to shorten the period that a couple would have to be separated in order to be eligible for divorce from the current four out of the last five years. [46416/12]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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The requirement that a court may grant a dissolution of marriage only where the spouses have lived apart for four of the previous five years is prescribed in Article 41.3.2 of the Constitution. I have no plans to bring forward proposals for a constitutional amendment on this matter.