Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 October 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution
Options for Constitutional Change
1:40 pm
Catherine Noone (Fine Gael)
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We are now in public session. We have discussed in private session over the last while the the issue of how to best proceed. The committee has taken evidence in public session from constitutional law and human rights experts and will review the six options open to us in with regard to constitutional change. Our legal adviser has outlined in a paper to this committee these six options to appeal or to amend Article 40.3.3° Members will all be familiar with the recommendations from the Citizens' Assembly. Deputy O'Brien has indicated that he has a proposal as to how to proceed.