Civil Partnership
Ahern was responsible for introducing legislation recognising civil partnerships for same-sex couples. He declared the legislation (Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010), which passed into law in July 2010 as "one of the most important pieces of civil rights legislation to be enacted since independence."
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