The Conservatives who say that these referendums will discourage marriage are missing the point: this won’t stop anyone getting married – indeed, it will disincentivise commitment-phobic people from baby-farming and expecting the State to pick up the tab.
Roderic O’Gorman said that progressive groups who weren’t supporting a ‘Yes’ vote in the referendum would have to explain why. Fianna Fáil TD John McGuinness says this “sounded like a threat,” and that O’Gorman was “out of order.” He added that he is personally voting ‘No’.
“That’s my personal position.”
Equality Minister Roderic O’Gorman says a ‘Yes’ vote in the Care Referendum would place an “obligation on the State” to support care.
Care provisions
Disability advocates
How times change.
On social media.
“Early in our term.”
Media Minister Catherine Martin is asked if she will delete a tweet in which she falsely claimed that the Constitution says “a woman’s place is in the home” – a claim which was explicitly contradicted by her government’s own Electoral Commission. Question by Ben Scallan.
Women’s work in the home
Senator Michael McDowell, who previously served as the Attorney General, Justice Minister and Tánaiste of Ireland, says it would be “a huge challenge” for the courts to say that polygamous relationships do not count as “durable relationships” if the referendum to redefine the family passes.