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Children and family relationships Bill

Summary

Deputy Walsh asks when the children and family relationships Bill will be published and whether it will pass before the marriage-equality referendum; the Tánaiste expects publication in February.

I welcome the Government's publication yesterday of the wording of the marriage equality referendum. On a slightly related piece of legislation, when does the Tánaiste expect the children and family relationships Bill to be published? Does she anticipate that the Bill will have concluded its passage through the Oireachtas before the marriage equality referendum?

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They are unrelated and trying to relate them makes it difficult.

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A great deal of work is ongoing in preparing this very important legislation, which will be published in February.

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