Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

In regard to amending the Constitution, we had the All- Party Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution, which produced ten or 11 reports, the last of which was produced in January 2006. That process appears to have run out of steam. Very few of the recommendations for constitutional change made by the All-Party Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution appear to have been given effect. What is the Government's position on the reports of the all-party committee? Are they now to gather dust or is there some programme or plan by which recommendations made by the all-party committee will be given effect in constitutional change?

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