# legislation - Thursday 23 May, 2013
While most of us take for granted having a passport or birth certificate in our own name, transgender people must face awkward questions when they are asked to provide identification – this shouldn’t be the case, writes Aengus Ó Snodaigh.
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# legislation - Wednesday 22 May, 2013
The final day of the three-day hearing saw legal experts teasing out some of the most intricate detail in the draft legislation.
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# legislation - Tuesday 21 May, 2013
Stitch up the X Case’s dangling loopholes and then hold a referendum to legalise abortion in Ireland – because no woman wants an abortion just for the hell of it, writes Carol Redmond.
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Day 2 of the Oireachtas hearings on abortion saw psychiatrists and medical professionals give their expert opinions on the new law.
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# legislation - Monday 20 May, 2013
The hearings on the wording of the heads of the Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013 will continue until tomorrow.
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# legislation - Saturday 18 May, 2013
They gathered in Dublin City centre to hear from speakers including TD Clare Daly.
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Heckling, James Reilly leaving early, and questions about term limits on abortion – the first day of the Oireachtas hearings on abortion legislation had a lot of drama. Here’s what happened.
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# legislation - Friday 17 May, 2013
TheJournal.ie team brought you live updates from today’s proceedings, which included testimonies from medical experts.
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What’s it all about? TheJournal.ie takes you through the Health Committee proceedings.
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# legislation - Tuesday 14 May, 2013
The hearings will be broadcast live from this Friday on television and the internet.
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# legislation - Saturday 4 May, 2013
Breaking via The Mire wire: Peter Mathews takes himself hostage and the Womb Repossession Bill takes centre stage.
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# legislation - Friday 3 May, 2013
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
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# legislation - Thursday 2 May, 2013
Irish women have been denied their constitutional right to adequate maternal healthcare but the new draft law changes that, argues Labour TD Ciara Conway.
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# legislation - Wednesday 1 May, 2013
Mathews had made controversial comments during Tonight with Vincent Browne earlier this week.
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The bill was published last night after much discussion – are you happy with the terms laid out in the bill?
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Good morning! Here are the nine things you need to know as you kick off your Wednesday morning.
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So – we now have a draft ‘heads of bill’. Here’s what happens as the Government tries to turn it into law.
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Government said that the bill would provide “legal clarity for the medical profession”.
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# legislation - Tuesday 30 April, 2013
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock..
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Gender recognition legislation is due to be published in 2014, which has led TENI to begin a new campaign to encourage the government to deal with it sooner.
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# legislation - Monday 29 April, 2013
Roisín Shorthall says that if the State was to be reimbursed by insurers for welfare payments taken out while people are injured and claim welfare, they could save millions.
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# legislation - Sunday 28 April, 2013
Discussions between Labour and Fine Gael on proposed abortion legislation continues this weekend.
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# legislation - Saturday 27 April, 2013
The Constitution is clear and unambiguous when it comes to the implications of abortion legislation – and pro-life parliamentarians should not try to distort it, write law lecturers Fiona de Londras and Laura Graham.
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# legislation - Wednesday 24 April, 2013
With new media comes new risks, writes Julie O’Neill who says many employers might not know they could be liable for statements made by their employees outside of working hours.
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Thousands of Irish servicemen were dismissed or prosecuted for fighting with the Allies during World War II.
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# legislation - Tuesday 23 April, 2013
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
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# legislation - Monday 22 April, 2013
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
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# legislation - Sunday 21 April, 2013
Labour Minister Pat Rabbitte said today he had not seen the heads of bill, amid reports that Labour and Fine Gael are clashing over the plan.
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As a single parent family, I realise we’ve only been tolerated as opposed to accepted as a proper family unit and because of the absence of the traditional set up we are somehow ‘less than’, writes Carol Redmond, who says same-sex unions are being treated in the same way.
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# legislation - Thursday 18 April, 2013
The Dáil has passed leglisation to allow for the National Lottery licence to be sold.
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# legislation - Monday 15 April, 2013
A number of Fine Gael TDs put forward the idea of a ‘sunset clause’, where abortion legislation would be reviewed after a set number of years.
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# legislation - Friday 5 April, 2013
The IMO heard debates about legislating for abortion in cases of rape, incest and fatal fetal anomalies.
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# legislation - Friday 29 March, 2013
# legislation - Saturday 9 March, 2013
The Pakistani government brought in tough new penalties in a bid to stop the dozens of acid attacks which take place every year.
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# legislation - Friday 8 March, 2013
The Dáil will debate the proposed legislation today.
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# legislation - Thursday 7 March, 2013
Traditional gender roles serve as prescriptive claims about how girls and women should act. There are greater choices for both men and women now, so we need to reconcile our competing demands, writes Margaret O’Keefe.
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# legislation - Sunday 3 March, 2013
Susan Denham said failure to address the problems posed by Ireland’s appeal court system may be “damaging to Irish society and the economy”.
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# legislation - Tuesday 19 February, 2013
The Dublin North TD said the property tax will put increasing pressure on the Government. “Labour, they’re nearly dropping like flies,” she said.
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# legislation - Monday 18 February, 2013
Fine Gael TD said it is an unusual piece of legislation as our laws do not generally address such personal issues as familial bonds.
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