State priority must be to guide our youth

IT is consoling to note the Taoiseach has shown awareness of the necessity for constitutional change or amendment to protect the rights of young people; even, if necessary, giving a referendum political priority.

In doing so, it is important to bear in mind that parents’ rights towards their children should be protected, too.

A recent proposal in Government circles, to keep the age of sexual consent at 17 for boys and girls, seemed a sensible one.