Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In 2019 Micheál Martin said it was "important" that legal gender recognition be given to "non-binary" genders and under-16s. Last year he set up a working group to look into the former.

Asked about this, he now says there are no plans to do this "in the forseeable future".
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