Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I want to ask the Taoiseach some questions on this. Obviously, the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Fitzgerald, took a calculated decision to proceed on this route of a Government campaign separate from that of the Referendum Commission. Will the Taoiseach outline why that decision was taken?

Did the Attorney General examine all of the information that was contained in the booklet and on the website prior to circulation? The Ministers, Deputies Varadkar and Fitzgerald, kind of laid the blame on the Attorney General, and Deputy Walsh of Fine Gael went very far this morning when he stated that if the Attorney General played an active role in the final sign-off, then she would have to consider her position. If Government Deputies are saying this, it needs a response from the Taoiseach on the origin and sequence of events that led to this.

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