Civil Partnership Bill, 2nd Stage Debate (1) – Practical Points

Labour's Ruairi Quinn speaking yesterday in the Dail.

On Thursday, the second stage debate on the Civil Partnership Bill picked up where it left off on December 3rd. The Adoption Bill was debated (see our guest post from Brid Nic Suibhne here) on the same day. 

You can read the liveblog of the Civil Partnership Bill debate, including my contributions to it here. We blogged the beginning of the second stage here. 

For reasons of space, there will be 2 posts about yesterday’s debate. On will focus on some important arguments made about the operation  of the Bill. The second will flag up a line of rhetoric which developed in the course of the debate about the proper place of religion in the republic.