Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour) | Oireachtas source

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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