Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

There is a process to our democracy and part of it is to adhere to something that has been well tried and tested. If we are to attempt to change our Constitution and if it is deemed necessary then the advice of the Attorney General is the process by which all Governments have followed over the years. The referendum on the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 also involved a constitutional amendment.

I am sorry for the Deputy's friend and his family. If he wants to continue to challenge the process by which we do our business here, then he has a duty himself. Deputy Mac Lochlainn might think it is funny that 3,000 people lost their lives during that 30 year period, and he might want to forget it, but some of us do not.

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