Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

These deaths are all unfortunate and tragic. Everybody sympathises, obviously. One does not need legislation to drive carefully. I do not blame anybody for getting involved in an unfortunate and tragic accident with those consequences. It is a matter that everybody is concerned about. Mr. Byrne has been very outspoken about matters that need to be dealt with, in his opinion. The Minister informs me that the Bill in question can be published before the end of the year.

I do not have a date for the noise nuisance Bill.

The Bill mentioned by Deputy Martin in respect of the referendum commission will be published before the end of this year. As he knows, a commission to deal with a referendum cannot be established until a Bill is published. We need to look at that. We always hear the complaint that the commission has not been set up for long enough to do its work, which is to inform the public of the actual question on which it is being asked to decide. We are looking to make the way the ballot paper is constructed and the way the question is phrased as streamlined, effective and clear as possible. Other legislative areas need to be attended to make the question clear so that the public can be very clear about what it is being asked when it is giving its answer..

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