In a great irony, given that today is International Women’s Day, Rebecca Black on PA Media ( Ireland to hold referendum on gender equality 07 March) reports on a proposed referendum to alter the Irish constitution.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said the intention is to remove the “outmoded reference to ‘women in the home’,” in the constitution, in line with the recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality.
The referendum will take place in November following government proposals for constitutional amendments to be published in June.
Mr Varadkar said: “For too long, women and girls have carried a disproportionate share of caring responsibilities, been discriminated against at home and in the workplace, objectified or lived in fear of domestic or gender-based violence.
“I am pleased to announce that the Government plans to hold a referendum this November to amend our constitution to enshrine gender equality and to remove the outmoded reference to ‘women in the home’, in line with the recommendations of the Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality.”
Minister for Equality Roderic O’Gorman [ note from Dusty - Mr O’Gorman has recently been diverting funds aimed at other groups to ‘LGBTQ’ groups] added: “I commend the Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality and the membership of the recent Special Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality for their work to advance these difficult and sensitive issues.
“My department will very shortly be convening an inter-departmental committee to develop policy recommendations for consideration by government, with a view to agreement by government of wording for the proposed referenda.”
The Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality was established by Oireachtas ( the Irish Parliament) resolution in July 2019 to ‘consider gender equality and make recommendations to the Oireachtas to advance gender equality by bringing forward proposals’.
You will find the report of the Citizens Assembly here:
Article 41 of Bunreacht na hÉireann ( the Irish Constitution) as currently formulated, reads:
41.2.1 In particular, the State recognises that by her life within the home, woman gives the State a support without which the common good cannot be achieved.
41.2.2 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 alarming ( to say the least) proposal from the Assembly is ( at page 57) that:
The Assembly should recommend that this provision be deleted from the Constitution and further recommend that it be replaced with a provision relating to care that would not be gender-specific.
Equally alarmingly, the Assembly recommends that Article 40.1 of the Constitution should be amended to refer explicitly to gender equality and non-discrimination. The existing wording of Article 40.1 is:
All citizens shall as human persons be held equal before the law.
Which, as far as I can make out, involves writing women and the word ‘woman’ out of the Constitution.
I hope I have got this report correct but look forward to hearing from the great Irish women’s campaigners on this matter such as Women’s Space and The Countess. All comments gratefully received.
Kellie-Jay has chosen a good moment to visit Ireland. Full details of the April visits here:
https://www.standingforwomen.com/about
Previously the Irish Government snuck in gender recognition in 2015 by tacking a question about this to a referendum that was mainly about same sex marriage. That question went completely under the radar.
We need to make sure that that doesn’t happen again.
Independent Woo Woo Special
Today, in an edition dedicated to International Women’s Day, International Women’s Day reminds us we still have a long way to go on gender equality, the Independent features pieces by ‘famous women’. I suppose the use of the word ‘gender’ in the headline should have given us the warning signal.
One of the pieces is by Jordan Gray, a trans-identifying man ‘famous’ ( infamous?) for stripping off on national TV and attempting to play the piano with his penis.
Dusty’s sensitivity reader writes:
FFS!!!!
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Hi Dusty, found you through The Glinner Update, thank you for the heads up. I share your concern at the direction this is going in and having just finished reading this "Report" from this alleged citizens assembly, my first instinct was camoflage, a cover story, a means of putting distance between the creeping agenda of internationally funded "gender" and alphabet peoples and the "government" a sort of "clean hands" justification i.e "but, but but this came from a CITIZENS assembly!!
Yeah Right - I looked through the list of names for the various "experts" tasked with providing "analysis" and video presentations to "inform" the participants - what I can tell you is this - two of those "experts" I know - rabid left wing feminists who are without a shadow of a doubt, in my opinion two of the dumbest people I have ever met.
99 people paid 500 euros to be indoctrinated by leftist ideologues and drip fed doctored "research" debunked "gender pay gap" nonsense and barely coherent and illiterate "gender" twaddle is, again in my opinion, not representative of slightly more than 5 million "citizens" at the moment there are approx 3.5 million "citizens" eligible to vote in this state, based on the current population estimates.
I concur with your declaration that "We need to make sure that that doesn’t happen again." meaning that that the citizens of this Nation are NOT hoodwinked into voting for an irreversible change to our Constitution by the sneaky, underhanded and corrupt actions of this government.
TAs you correctly pointed out there is one Right currently enshrined into Bunreacht na hEireann 1937 that needs and has never needed a "qualification" and it is the one they want to evicerate
"All citizens shall as human persons be held equal before the law."
If ever there was a "gender neutral" expression of Constitutional Protection based on nothing other than being a Human Being, a Homo Sapien, this is it - and that is their goal - the rest is just camoflage in my opinion, a smokescreen, 145 pages of pure unadulterated waffle to hide the real purpose - this is it.
My apologies for taking up so much time and space - but I am sick to death of this crap.