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Debates on Constitutional Convention reports

Summary

Deputy Buttimer asks when the House will debate Constitutional Convention reports; the Tánaiste says debates can follow the Government’s promised responses.

Given the success of the Constitutional Convention and the way in which members, and particularly citizen members, have gone about their business to make it a success, when does the Government intend to hold a series of debates in the House on the reports so far?

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The procedure is that the Government has committed to giving a response to each of the reports within four months of the report being presented. The first of those will arise by the summer and a second will arise in the autumn. Arising from those responses, we can make arrangements for debating the issues in the House. Where there are constitutional amendment proposals or proposed referenda arising from the Constitutional Convention, they would have to be brought to the House in any event for legislative measures. The idea of having a wider debate on the reports of the Constitutional Convention, once the Government has responded to it, could be arranged.

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