Letters to the Editor: Proposed wording of amendments to the Constitution

Irish Examiner readers consider issues including the proposed amendments to Bunreacht na hÉireann regarding women and the family, conflict in the Middle East, and neutrality

Original documents on display ahead of last year's centenary events to commemorate the proceedings of the 1922 Constitution Committee. Photo: Gareth Chaney/Collins 

In the coming weeks, the Dáil is expected to discuss the wording of the amendments to the Irish Constitution on women and the family, which are to go to referendum in March. 

The wording should enable legal enforcement, otherwise it makes a mockery of the recognition that carers, overwhelmingly mothers and other women, have been campaigning for and are entitled to. The whole of society depends on this life-giving, life-enhancing work, yet carers are impoverished and discriminated against for doing it.