Senator Michael McDowell: Why I’m voting no: This chaotic idea is ripe for exploitation and could break up farms

Michael McDowell. Photo: Gareth Chaney/Collins

Senator Michael McDowell

The two referendums will have major and possibly radical consequences for Irish people and Irish society in the short, medium and long term if passed.

The family referendum would extend the present concept of the family to include “other durable relationships”. But no definition is proposed for the term “durable relationship”.