Other proposed constitutional amendments
O’Keeffe asked whether issues including bail and citizenship rights would receive consideration. The Taoiseach reiterated that he had no specific proposals for constitutional amendments beyond the referendum already announced.
The Taoiseach seemed to concentrate his reply on Question No. 18 and to ignore Question No. 19, which is a broad question on any proposals he has as to constitutional amendment. The question of bail goes back——
Comment on this
The Deputy may not have heard the latter part of my reply which says that no other constitutional amendments are proposed at present.
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Do we take it from that that the problems indicated by Deputy Fitzpatrick in regard to bail, which go back to 1966, the problem with regard to the possibility of need for a constitutional referendum on citizenship or extending rights to British citizens to vote here are to be brushed aside or is any thought to be given to them or any proposal to be brought forward in regard to them?