Sir, – This latest attempt to make piecemeal amendments to the Constitution represents the current attempt by the political classes to evade their responsibility to make proper laws to protect children and to put in place proper systems to enforce the basic human rights of children imported from the European Convention on Human Rights. The current proposal, if passed, would leave it up to the courts to “create” rights, which rights should be set down in law. Much of the administrative chaos which ensues in the State flows from this continuing failure by the legislature to do its job by passing carefully considered laws and the subsequent arbitrary decisions made by the judiciary in a well-meaning but muddled and inconsistent attempt to fill the ensuing vacuum. – Yours, etc,
A chara, – The referendum has, in my opinion, two distinctly different aspects to it, namely, the allowance of State intervention in extreme cases and the issue of adoption. We are being asked to answer two questions without being given the opportunity to have a different opinion on either.
It seems to me that we are not being given an honest opportunity in this referendum. – Yours, etc,