Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Thirtieth Amendment of the Constitution (Houses of the Oireachtas Inquiries) Bill 2011. I welcome the proposed referendum being discussed today and the accompanying draft legislation which was published by the Minister earlier this week. I appreciate he stated he is open to suggestions for improving the legislation prior to the final draft being published. I ask people to vote in favour of the amendment, after which we will be able to work on passing the legislation.

I have not seen the question that will be put on the ballot paper but I ask the Minister to ensure that anyone in favour of making the change should vote "Yes".

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