Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Out of respect to the citizens' assembly, we should allow it to complete its work. The citizens have not voted yet and they have not made any recommendations yet. That will happen in the next couple of weeks. We should allow them to complete their work without pre-empting what their recommendations may be.

The general procedure that we have taken in politics and in our political system since we established citizens' assemblies is to refer the report for detailed consideration by the relevant committee. I imagine that will be the next step but I do not want to pre-empt the outcome of a citizens' assembly that is still meeting.

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