Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

As I understand it, the consequence of this proposal is that we will never have a thirty-fifth amendment. Is that the normal way of doing things? I am not going to oppose amendment No. 2 just because it changes the numbering. Is this the usual procedure? Were there other proposed amendments between the first amendment and the thirty-eighth amendment which were skipped without going to the people in a referendum?

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