NWCI submission to the Department of Justice Equality and Law Reform on Domestic Partnership
Summary
The National Women's Council of Ireland welcomes the opportunity to make a submission to the Working Group on Domestic Partnership, established by the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform.
The call is timely and appropriate given:
- Recommendations of the Equality Authority and NESF on the need to legislate in this area;
- The findings of the All-Party Oireachtas Committee on the Constitutional Review;
- The pending Gilligan/Zappone-v-Ireland tax case; and
- Changing and positive public attitudes to same sex unions in recent national survey polls, reflected in television debates and newspaper opinion pages.