Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)

Legislation on directly elected mayors will be this session. As the Taoiseach indicated yesterday in his response, the matter of the children's rights referendum is with the Minister of State, Deputy Barry Andrews. The Government has not made a final decision. Until such time as the Government has made that decision there will be no determination on when there will be a referendum. The heads of the legislation on head shops will come to Government next week and we will try to get it through as quickly as possible then.

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