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Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Convention Recommendations (28 Mar 2017)

Enda Kenny: -----when we will have the wording on blasphemy. As I said to Deputy Micheál Martin, the Government has not actually decided whether to hold a referendum this year. We are waiting for the report on the eighth amendment. We have not decided what we are doing next year. If we are to hold a referendum, we must prepare a White Paper, a strategy and a structure that will allow everybody...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Convention Recommendations (28 Mar 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: .... The proposals put were dismissed out of hand. That was a pity because of the time and effort people put in. When does the Taoiseach intend to produce the wording for the referendum on blasphemy and for the referendum on the removal of the provision relating to the position of women in the home in the Constitution? Since the current Government was formed, has the Taoiseach given...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Convention Recommendations (28 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: ...duties of women being limited to the home. I am surprised the Government has not been taken to court over the reference to women not needing to find employment. The same applies to the removal of blasphemy. The recommendation the Government has chosen to introduce a referendum for relates to voting rights for citizens abroad or in the North for presidential elections. I would have...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Convention Recommendations (28 Mar 2017)

Enda Kenny: ...published a detailed options paper last week to set out the range of options available to give effect to the recommendation of the Convention on the Constitution. As regards the sixth report, on the offence of blasphemy, the Programme for a Partnership Governmentsays that a referendum will be held on removing the offence from the Constitution. The seventh progress report made...