Mr. Enda Falvey:

The legislation provides, and I am not suggesting it might not be reviewed in years to come, that the Short Title of the Bill must appear on the face of the ballot paper. In years gone by there was something of a problem with that, in the sense that it might just read, for example, "The Fifth Amendment of the Constitution Bill", and one could well imagine somebody going to the polling booth and wondering what the fifth amendment is about. There was a provision in the legislation, as was said in the opening comments, about including a heading which helped. In more recent years, however, if one thinks of the last amendment, whatever its number was, it included the abolition of the Seanad in brackets, so one got an indication, at least, of what was involved. That is the law. There is no provision in the law for subjecting the wording to examination by the courts before it appears on the ballot paper.