Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I agree with that proposal and I will be interested to see what the Taoiseach has to say about it.

I offer another proposal for a referendum which is rather simple, that is, to change the wording in the Constitution relating to natural resources from the current wording which refers to "the State" owning the resources to "the people" owning the resources. In fact, that was the wording in the democratic programme of the first Dáil. In the later Constitution it was changed to "the State". There is a major difference between "the people" and "the State". If we changed the wording to "the people" it would enshrine and provide the protection for resources like our forests, water, wind, sea and land to remain in perpetuity in public ownership and that ownership could not be compromised. That is one concrete suggestion for the Taoiseach for a referendum and I believe he would get considerable popular support for it.

Another issue arises out of the Rory O'Neill case. Like many others, I am disgusted that public money was handed over to an organisation-----

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