TERFs and the Irish referendum

If they mean cohabitatants they should use that word surely, so clearly they mean relationships that do and don't include cohabitation.

The wording replacing marriage with enduring relationship is ridiculous. What does that mean?

Not following Irish politics, but my presumption would be that this is opening the gate to greater rights in law for cohabitants. Like in Scotland, where the Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006 gave cohabitants various rights, including a right to raise a claim for up to what they would have got through prior rights as a spouse in intestate succession, to the detriment of the deceased's children.

Hi, sorry I was a bit abrupt earlier.
I thought it was important you knew you couldn't vote before writing anything longer.

My reasons are as follows:
The clause mentioning women and mothers in the home has not held me or other women back from working outside the home.
There were laws that did historically but they are now gone.
When actual women wanted rid of this wording 30/40 years ago, nobody gave a fuck.

I am highly suspicious of RODs involvement in this. He fucked women and children over in the mother's and baby home scandal. I dont believe he is doing this for the women!

Ireland has moved with the times but due to the bigger sized families we still have, shorter school days and long school holidays there are still a large ammount of sahms here. We have a much higher rate than most eu countries. I think that this unpaid labour should be respected.

I also object to the vagueness of the whole thing.

This particularly bothers me with the proposed 2nd ammendment.
The wording replacing marriage with enduring relationship is ridiculous. What does that mean?

Big fat No, no,no.

The social welfare system already provide a financial safety net for carers etc.

That mother at home is lovely clause it is the only place in modern Ireland that recognises the work mothers do at home.

Our tax system is designed that both parents are encouraged to work.

And to be blatantly honest anything Roderick O'Gorman (minister of made up letter salad) is behind is damaging to women.

No, you have the right to vote in Dáil and local elections , you don't have the right to vote in referendums unless you're an Irish citizen, so you don't need to worry about this one at all

Hope you are enjoying being in Ireland. I moved from Ireland to Scotland in 2007. (I miss corned beef 😁)

You should be voting No.

essentially a consequence of the not in reasonable attempt to broaden the language around support for families and carers has resulted in a proposal to remove the word woman and the specific rights afforded women in the constitution. It’s seen as an attempt to strike the words woman and women from the legislative framework.

You can’t vote in the referendum unless you’re an Irish citizen.

I started a thread on this the other day might help. https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4999605-march-8th-irish-referendum-on-mothers-in-the-home

Follow The countess and other Irish GCs on twitter lots of discussion there.

All Irish citizens who are on the Register of Electors, the Postal Voters List or the Special Voters List can vote in a referendum.

www.citizensinformation.ie/en/government-in-ireland/elections-and-referenda/types-of-elections-and-referendums/constitutional-referendum-in-ireland/

You need to be an irish citizen.

Sorry but I don't think you do have the right to vote in referendums.