Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----other than to suggest that I would have doubts about the first option, which is to repeal simpliciter. I have doubts about that because it is loaded with options, trip wires and challenges and I think that will emerge ultimately. The second option is to repeal based on published legislation entrenched in the Constitution. There will be a lot of discussion about certain subjects not being suitable for entrenchment in the Constitution. I hear another debate at the present time in which it is stated that the ownership of the country's water supply should be entrenched in the Constitution. I find that conflicting. On the one hand it is a good thing, but on the other it is a bad thing. Suffice it to say, if we are going to be legislators, we should be legislators and do the job that must be done.

We must do so having taken into account all the issues concerned and avoid, in so far as we can, anything that is propaganda or what might be politically advantageous at a particular time. That is not what the people want.