Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)

The Government met and approved the wording of the Twenty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution Bill. As the Deputy knows we would like to get the matter initiated within the House as quickly as possible. Of course that is on the basis of a satisfactory outcome of the deliberations today and tomorrow. It is the intention that this legislation would go before the House and be complete before we rise.

The Government has not received the report into clerical sexual abuse in the Dublin archdiocese, but it will consider it and make a decision afterwards. The child care Bill will be taken in this session.

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