NWCI submission to the Department of Justice Equality and Law Reform on Domestic Partnership

Published: Friday, March 31, 2006

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.

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