The Colley Report is a 2006 paper on same-sex marriage and civil partnership produced for the Irish Government.
[1] This announcement came the day after Belfast in Northern Ireland held the first of the new UK Civil Partnership registration ceremonies.
The group facilitated a conference on the topic in May 2006, as input to its reports which was attended by experts from other countries which have introduced civil unions and gay marriage.
[4] They recommended that a civil partnership scheme would resolve most of the issues for same-sex and cohabiting couples, while providing fewer benefits than marriage.
[5] At the same time, a number of LGBT groups, including GLEN, LGBTNoise, and MarriagEquality, criticised Civil Partnership as "a separate and unequal institution".