Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

-----clearly the Seanad option could be one for the convention to consider. However, we have already put it into the programme for Government that if the constitutional convention and the persons who serve on it decide that there is another issue or other issues that are of such importance that they should also be considered by the constitutional convention, as I told the Deputy at the briefings he attended, it will be possible for the constitutional convention to do that. The Seanad and the child protection referendum are outside the convention and are part of the programme for Government. The question will be put to the people in due course.

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