Sadly, the members of the Oireachtas [with some few execptions] have a very poor record in upholding individual liberties, especially where the right asserted is not a politically correct one.

Where two or more consenting adults engage in an action, that action is lawful, unless the act conflicts with the exercise of the rights of some other person. Where such conflict arises, the Oireachtas – or some competent subordinate legislature – may regulate the right so as to avoid the conflict. However, such regulation may not properly amount to prohibition, because the purpose of the regulation is to avoid the conflict and not to deny the right being asserted!

If the right of consensual conduct between adult does not exist, we are no longer a society of sovereign, competent and autonomous persons. We are no longer free.