Marriage Equality last week launched a National Poster campaign calling for Civil Marriage for same sex couples and recognition of lesbian and gay families. Funded by the Community Foundation of Ireland the posters will be displayed on Dublin Bus and in libraries, family resources and community centres around the country. Find out more about the […]
Tags:Civil Partnership Bill·Family·Gay·Gay Lesbian and Bisexual·Lesbian·Same-sex marriage
(Enoc Burke – Campaign for Conscience, Photo from Red Mum) You may have heard there are a few protesters against the Civil Partnership Bill 2009 outside Leinster House for the past few months. From various Christian groups they are calling for a freedom of conscience clause for registrars and others as well as opposing rights […]
Tags:Civil Partnerships Bill·Kildare Street·Leinster House·National Mens Council of Ireland·Oireachtas
At 10 am this morning in Committee Room 2, the Committee stage of the Civil Partnership Bill 2009 will reconvene. This is the stage where amendments are proposed and debated on the bill. The first part of these proceedings took place last month and saw a number of amendments tabled by the opposition. Some of […]
Tags:Civil Partnership Bill·Debate·Government·Joint Oireachtas Committee·Oireachtas·Politics
UPDATE GLEN have tonight issued a press release clarifying the situation following contact with the Department of Justice – it seems there is an error in the Irish Times report? An Irish Times article on Wednesday 19th May seemed to suggest that a proposed amendment to the Civil Partnership Bill would not exempt from stamp […]
Tags:Civil Partners·Civil Partnership Bill·Legislation·Marriage·Property·Stamp duty·Tax
The IFA and ICMSA and a few lawyers will be happy with the news that the Cabinet yesterday approved amendments to the Civil Partnership Bill which will see a five year period for rights to be granted to in terms of property, pensions etc in cases of claims of the death of one of the […]
Tags: