I raise again the issue I have raised on numerous occasions in the past, namely, the ongoing difficulties experienced in the family law issues that are ongoing and that have been decided on, the discrimination against mothers and fathers of children, to the extent that parents are barred from seeing their children indefinitely. This has been raised in various other parliaments across Europe. It has been raised on discrimination grounds by freedom-thinking people across Europe and I raise it again in the hope that there can be an emergency intervention to cease the current practices until legislation comes into force.

Following on from today's discussion in the Dáil I will engage on this with the Minister for Justice and relay Deputy Durkan's views. The Deputy is a strong advocate on this issue and I will ask the Minister to engage with him directly on it.