Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

Our legal advice is that it is constitutionally possible to do so. Professor David Gwynn Morgan, a professor of law at University College Cork, agrees. In a letter to a newspaper written last week, he stated, "It is reported that the Attorney General has advised that to extend this change to existing leases would be "retrospective" and therefore unconstitutional". He stated: "With respect, this view seems to me to be wrong."

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