Fine Gael presidential candidate Heather Humphreys has said the Government should have done more work informing the public about the two referendums which were overwhelmingly rejected last year. She ran Fine Gael’s campaign for a ‘Yes Yes’ vote. One referendum would have inserted “durable relationships” alongside marriage into the Constitution and the other would have deleted mention of mothers-in-the-home from it.
“When I look back now, I think perhaps there should have been more groundwork done,” Ms Humphreys told RTÉ’s Today with Claire Byrne.
“People didn’t understand what a ‘durable relationship’ was.”
“There was a very strong recommendation from a Citizens’ Assembly that the words ‘woman in the home’ should be taken out of the Constitution, and of course that we should recognise other partnerships other than marriage,” she said.
“The Government tried to bring forward a form of wording that would try to do that, and as I said, we probably didn’t put in enough work.”
