Official records show costs row over care referendum wording

Wrangling between Government departments over the constitutional amendment on family and care continued until close to the final deadline that would allow the referendum to take place in early March, the minutes of the power group overseeing the process have disclosed.

Minutes of its meetings were released on Wednesday. The heavily redacted documents show that the wording on the family referendum was agreed by September.‘I am 39 and feel like I have not managed to make much of my life’However, substantial differences remained on the wording of the care referendum, with several Government departments challenging the proposal of the Department of Children to commit the State to “reasonable measures” to uphold the rights of carers.

“Attendees broadly agreed that the word ‘durable’ was a good addition and generally noted that durable relationships could apply to a number of different family formations, including one-parent families,” it said. It has stated: “By contrast, the paper now has emphasis on the wording ‘reasonable measures’ within the proposed amendment.”

“It was noted that this entails a substantially higher level of risk for the State, goes significantly further in terms of the likelihood of the judiciary potentially becoming involved in matters of resource distribution and the sets a threshold that the State is more likely to fail having regard to particular areas of service pressure and need,” the minutes stated.

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