Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We have not made a decision but I envisage that it will be held in the latter half of 2013. I say that because this is a question that will be put to the people. The Irish EU Presidency runs from 1 January to the end of June 2013. The Ministers will be attending Presidency meetings during that period and I do not think it would be practical to divert the attention of the Oireachtas for three or four weeks on the issue of any referendum. The constitutional convention will have made a number of recommendations in the meantime.

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