Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)

Can the Tánaiste confirm that as has been reported, the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Gormley, intends introducing an amendment of the Constitution Bill to facilitate a second referendum on the Lisbon treaty and that Bill is to be addressed in the House in the coming week? Will it at least be published next week? What is the timeframe for the legislation? Does the Government intend to press it through before the summer recess? Will the Bill facilitate putting to the electorate the exact same Lisbon treaty on which we have already passed judgment? I understand the text will not be altered in any way either by so-called legal guarantees or by declarations.

We have debated the report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse and the House passed a unanimous motion, which was very welcome. Everyone is to be commended on the approach to that matter. On the publication of the report of the Dublin Archdiocese Commission of Investigation into clerical sexual abuse of children in the Dublin archdiocese, will that report also be debated on the Floor of the House?

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