Dáil
‹ Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Law Reform Commission Divorce law reform referral
Summary
Dr. Browne urged the Taoiseach to ask the Law Reform Commission to examine the constitutional disability of divorce; the Taoiseach declined.
Arising out of the Taoiseach's reply to the question on the Law Reform Commission, I have read four or five reports and the only thing for which they are notable is their unimportance as to the subjects discussed. Is it not a fact that the Attorney General has power under the Act to ask the commission to consider certain reforms? Would the Taoiseach contemplate asking them to consider the whole question of the disability of absence of divorce in the Constitution as a special problem——
Comment on this
——to be considered in the light of the increasing demand for divorce and the increasing need for it?