A Policy on Marriage and Partnership Rights
Valuing Families
A Policy on Marriage and Partnership Rights
In January 2005, the Green Party joined with thousands of individuals and organisations in making submission to the All-Party Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution, regarding reform of those articles of the Constitution relating to the Family. In our submission, we made a number of suggestions concerning expanding the definition of the family, enhancing individual rights within the family unit and in particular, enhancing the protection afforded to children. The recommendations contained within that submission would have entailed a number of amendments to our Constitution.
Appendix I - Uncertainty as to the Definition of Marriage
In B v. R (1995), a case dealing with bigamy, Costello J. in the High Court defined marriage as "the voluntary and permanent union of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others for life".
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