Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It will be one of various referendums that, I anticipate, will be held on what we are going to call "constitutional day", although someone may have a more trendy term for it. Clearly there will be more than one referendum to be held in the context of all of this.

This will be an international agreement at European Union level between member states once it is agreed. We are heading in that direction and we will require a referendum. I hope we will be able to persuade people that this is a topic of sufficient interest to vote "Yes". It is good for business. There are no negatives in this from any from any perspective in the context of Ireland.