Mr. Martin Fraser:

Yes. What happens in general is that those reports are sent to the Oireachtas and the Government, and the Government responds to them. As the Deputy knows, the convention gave rise to two or three referenda, that on marriage equality being the one people remember best and one on how old the President could be was defeated, and there may have been others. We are going to have one in October on presidential voting rights which I believe dates back to the Constitutional Convention. The Government or the Oireachtas either go with these things or they do not. The assembly dealt with some policy matters, for example, on older people and climate change, and the one that is best known is the eighth amendment, which was the hardest piece of work done.

It is an example that reflects Deputy Aylward's point. I could be asked to set up a Citizens' Assembly from scratch and I might have to find six or seven people from nowhere and they have to be quite skilled people because these are very difficult and sensitive jobs. In this case, we have run the assembly since the arrival of the last Government. It is not in place at the moment but there is talk of having another one on a few issues.