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2 further referenda were in the pipeline before we voted on friday, it was intended that we voted on them along with a presidential election later this year.
The 2 referenda are for the removal of sanction against blasphemy from the constitution and on the mother in the home clause.
And then someone made a useful suggestion which could be put in place of the first bit to be removed (by a separate ballot at the same time)
https://www.irishexaminer.com/break...housing-to-tackle-homeless-crisis-845528.html
The clauses are
1.
The Family
Article 41
1. 1° The State recognises the Family as the natural primary and
fundamental unit group of Society, and as a moral institution
possessing inalienable and imprescriptible rights, antecedent
and superior to all positive law.
2° The State, therefore, guarantees to protect the
Family in its constitution and authority, as the necessary
basis of social order and as indispensable to the welfare
of the Nation and the State.
2. 1° In particular, the State recognises that by her life within
the home, woman gives to the State a support without which
the common good cannot be achieved.
2° The State shall, therefore, endeavour to ensure that
mothers shall not be obliged by economic necessity to
engage in labour to the neglect of their duties in the
home.
The vote will be to remove article 41.2 or 41.2.2 (*the bit in italics) in full. This could be replaced with a right to shelter for the family in the same position.
2.
The other referendum is on this bit.
6. 1° The State guarantees liberty for the exercise of the
following rights, subject to public order and morality:
i. The right of the citizens to express freely their
convictions and opinions.
The education of public opinion being,
however, a matter of such grave import to
the common good, the State shall
endeavour to ensure that organs of public
opinion, such as the radio, the press, the
cinema, while preserving their rightful
liberty of expression, including criticism of
Government policy, shall not be used to
undermine public order or morality or the
authority of the State.
The publication or utterance of
blasphemous, seditious, or indecent matter
is an offence which shall be punishable in
accordance with law.
Personally I would remove all of the bit in italics but perhaps only the last sentence is up for a vote.
The italicised remainder does not recognise that social media is as big as the press ever was in 1936, never mentions Television which did exist back then, and WTF does "undermine" "morality" mean anyway.
The 2 referenda are for the removal of sanction against blasphemy from the constitution and on the mother in the home clause.
And then someone made a useful suggestion which could be put in place of the first bit to be removed (by a separate ballot at the same time)
https://www.irishexaminer.com/break...housing-to-tackle-homeless-crisis-845528.html
Now I am very much minded to agree with these calls but to word it as a constitutional right to shelter rather than a right to a home.Calls for constitutional right to housing to tackle homeless crisis
The clauses are
1.
The Family
Article 41
1. 1° The State recognises the Family as the natural primary and
fundamental unit group of Society, and as a moral institution
possessing inalienable and imprescriptible rights, antecedent
and superior to all positive law.
2° The State, therefore, guarantees to protect the
Family in its constitution and authority, as the necessary
basis of social order and as indispensable to the welfare
of the Nation and the State.
2. 1° In particular, the State recognises that by her life within
the home, woman gives to the State a support without which
the common good cannot be achieved.
2° The State shall, therefore, endeavour to ensure that
mothers shall not be obliged by economic necessity to
engage in labour to the neglect of their duties in the
home.
The vote will be to remove article 41.2 or 41.2.2 (*the bit in italics) in full. This could be replaced with a right to shelter for the family in the same position.
2.
The other referendum is on this bit.
6. 1° The State guarantees liberty for the exercise of the
following rights, subject to public order and morality:
i. The right of the citizens to express freely their
convictions and opinions.
The education of public opinion being,
however, a matter of such grave import to
the common good, the State shall
endeavour to ensure that organs of public
opinion, such as the radio, the press, the
cinema, while preserving their rightful
liberty of expression, including criticism of
Government policy, shall not be used to
undermine public order or morality or the
authority of the State.
The publication or utterance of
blasphemous, seditious, or indecent matter
is an offence which shall be punishable in
accordance with law.
Personally I would remove all of the bit in italics but perhaps only the last sentence is up for a vote.
The italicised remainder does not recognise that social media is as big as the press ever was in 1936, never mentions Television which did exist back then, and WTF does "undermine" "morality" mean anyway.