FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 2024 THE 2 REFERENDA

On Friday, March 8, 2024, you will be asked to vote in 2 Referenda, on changing the current text of Article 41 of Bunreacht na hÉireann. VOTE NO to Amendment 39, so as to protect Irish Families, who are the foundation stone, and bulwark, of our society. VOTE NO to Amendment 40, so as to uphold, safeguard, and protect the fundamental role of a mother in caring for children at home. We CANNOT trust the State to protect the inalienable rights of ‘the Family’, if this very definition is undermined by reference to ‘durable relationships’, NOR can we trust that the positive obligations the State has to protect, and safeguard, the role of a mother as caregiver to her children at home, will be upheld, if they delete ‘home’, ‘mother’ and ‘woman’, from Bunreacht na hÉireann.

#Vote NO to Amendment 39

#Vote NO to Amendment 40

Amendment 39

PROPOSAL TO CHANGE ARTICLE 41.1.1º:

Article 41.1.1º ‘The State recognises the Family, whether founded on marriage or on other durable relationships, as the natural primary and fundamental unit group of Society, and as a moral institution possessing inalienable and imprescriptible right, antecedent and superior to all positive law.’

PROPOSAL TO CHANGE ARTICLE 41.3.1º, BY DELETING TEXT SHOWN WITH LINE THROUGH IT:

‘The State pledges itself to guard, with special care the institution of Marriage, on which the Family is founded, and to protect it against attack.’

Amendment 40

PROPOSAL TO DELETE ARTICLE 41.2.1º, AND ARTICLE 41.2.2º, AND TO INSERT A NEW ARTICLE, 42B

Article 41.2.1º ‘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.’

Article 41.2.2 º ‘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.

We oppose the replacement of Article 41.2

by the *PROPOSED* Article 42B.

The PROPOSED Article 42B:

The State recognises that the provision of care, by members of a family to one another by reason of the bonds that exist among them, gives to society a support without which the common good cannot be achieved, and shall strive to support such provision.

Article 42B does not place any positive obligation on the State to support financially, or provide protections for, carers in the home. The Article is purposively drafted this way so that the State are not financially liable; but they are misleading the people, in an attempt to get this Referendum over the line. Do NOT trust the Government.

WHY SHOULD YOU VOTE NO?

Amendment 39

► To PROTECT the inalienable rights of the Irish Family, that are antecedent, and superior, to the State. Amending Article 41.1.1º to include ‘durable relationships’ is a direct attack on the Family. The Chair of the Electoral Commission recently stated that ‘durable relationships could be defined as a couple getting a Christmas card.’ By redefining the Family, it is no longer a sacred institution, but open to interpretation, can include anything the State decides, and will be used to advance the LGBTQI+, and trans agenda.

► The inclusion of ‘durable relationships’ will lead to an increase of immigrants into Ireland under the Family Reunification Visa Scheme, currently restricted to a spouse, or child, of a refugee. In 2022, Germany issued 121,000 Family Reunification visas, after extending the qualification criteria. Ireland is already at crisis point, because of the State’s immigration policy, that threatens the entire social fabric of our society. Government Ministers have confirmed that, the including ‘of durable relationships’ in Bunreacht na hÉireann, will widen the scope for Family Renunification Visa applicants to Ireland.

Amendment 40

►Article 41.2.2 º places a positive obligation on the State to ‘endeavour to ensure that mothers shall not be obliged by economic necessity to engage in labour’ outside the home. It could be argued that this laid the foundation for a mother’s right to social security, and work‑related protections, including maternity payments, and Home Caring pension contributions. By deleting this Article, the State will no longer have a duty, as enshrined in Bunreacht na hÉireann, to provide financial support, and protections, to mothers who care for their children at home, and the State, through legislation, can remove existing rights.

Erasing ‘home’, ‘mother’ and ‘woman’ from Bunreacht na hÉireann is not progressive, but regressive.

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