Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I would also like to ask Ms O'Connor and Ms O'Malley-Dunlop some questions. I thank them for coming in. I thought Ms O'Connor's point a very practical and important one. We can talk about a referendum but there will be a campaign and we as politicians have a responsibility to ensure that what we put forward is likely to win.

I listened very carefully to what Ms O'Connor was saying about a divisive campaign and this is something that the Minister will have to take into account. Deleting the article might indeed give rise to a divisive campaign because people might say that the Government is taking away any recognition and this could be seen as grounds to oppose the deletion. If it were to come down to a matter of deletion or amendment, which would the National Women's Council favour?