Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

As I said to the Deputy last week in relation to this matter, there is a proposal from the joint committee in relation to the children's referendum. That is being considered by the Minister of State, Deputy Barry Andrews. It has not yet been considered by Government because he is currently liaising with various Departments and the Attorney General's office. As soon as it comes to Government, we can deal with it then, but obviously I do not want to pre-empt that discussion.

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