Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is a matter for Government. There is a number of potential referendums on the list. As a Government we must decide which ones to do and how many we can do in any one day. We can do a lot but there are risks in holding four or five referendums on the one day. In my first speech after being elected Taoiseach in 2017, I said we would have a referendum on the eighth amendment within a year. I set the challenge for that to be done and it was done. A year is a reasonable timeframe for a referendum but approximately a year is needed to prepare the ground, make sure we are ready for any disinformation and prepare for the campaign.

Finally, all I can say about collective bargaining is that a report will be published in October. The high-level working group did a really good job and it has come up with a negotiated way forward that we could pursue. I would prefer to publish the report, allow enough time for people to digest it and perhaps talk about it again