Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 20 September 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution
Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Engagement with Ms Justice Mary Laffoy, Citizens' Assembly
1:30 pm
Ms Sharon Finegan:
As the assembly chair has said, the transcript has the full detail of what happened. It comes down to this question that a number of Deputies have raised on ballot 2 and ballot 3 and what the legal understanding is for repeal and what the effect of that is. Much of the discussion on that was on the understanding of the legal impact of repeal simpliciter, as the chair said, versus an amendment. That is what that whole discussion was about - the outcome of ballot 2. It all happened in open court and was very clear. The transcript provides what happened.
No comments