Equivalence in Promoting Equality is a new publication from the Equality Authority and I’ve not downloaded it yet but it seems from a press statement on BreakingNews.ie that they are using the Good Friday Agreement to get the people of the Republic some of the same rights which people in the North get:
The body said that under the Good Friday Agreement, the government has committed to ensuring an equivalent level of protection of human rights in the Republic.
This means it could be obliged to give legal recognition to same-sex relationships.
And all this the day before the FF/FG rigged Committee on the Constitution recommends no changes to the definition of what a family is.