Overwhelming No-No vote in the referendums does not mean social change has stalled
The absence of draft legislation and detailed policy commitments meant that it was never clear how the amendments would impact people’s lives and rights. A lack of focus onand concepts such as autonomy and choice and the interconnections between disability and care also probably played a critical part in the overwhelming defeat of the amendments.
For diverse families, it is likely that the preliminary mapping exercise of the legal differences in the treatment of families not based on marriage has already been done by the inter-departmental committee established to prepare for the referendums. That research can be used as the basis for a programme of law reform to promote the rights of diverse families in areas of law such as family, social welfare, succession, taxation and housing.
There are clearly powerful allies in the Centre for Disability Law and Policy and the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the University of Galway. IHREC and the National Disability Authority also need to come together to map out the reforms needed to ensure that Ireland is no longer an outlier in the area of disability rights.
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