Dáil debates

Wednesday, 6 March 2024

Ráiteas mar Fhaisnéis do Vótálaithe i ndáil leis an mBille um an Aonú Leasú is Daichead ar an mBunreacht (An Comhaontú maidir le Cúirt Aontaithe um Paitinní), 2024: Tairiscint - Statement for Information of Voters in relation to the Forty-first Amendment of the Constitution (Agreement on a Unified Patent Court) Bill 2024: Motion

 

4:00 pm

Photo of Neale RichmondNeale Richmond (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael)
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Tairgim:

GO nDÉANFAR an ráiteas atá leagtha amach sa Sceideal a ghabhann leis an Rún seo a fhorordú mar eolas do vótálaithe, de bhun alt 23 d'Acht an Reifrinn, 1994 (Uimh. 12 de 1994), i ndáil leis an togra chun an Bunreacht a leasú, atá ar áireamh sa Bhille um an Aonú Leasú is Daichead ar an mBunreacht (An Comhaontú maidir le Cúirt Aontaithe um Paitinní), 2024, agus is ábhar do reifreann bunreachta.
An Sceideal

An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Daichead ar an mBunreacht (An Comhaontú maidir le Cúirt Aontaithe um Paitinní), 2024

– Páipéar Ballóide Uaine

Ráiteas mar Eolas do Vótálaithe
Fiafraítear díot, sa reifreann seo, an bhféadfaidh Éire an Comhaontú maidir le Cúirt Aontaithe um Paitinní a dhaingniú.

Beartaítear leis an mBille um an Aonú Leasú is Daichead ar an mBunreacht (An Comhaontú maidir le Cúirt Aontaithe um Paitinní), 2024 an fo-alt seo a leanas a chur isteach i ndiaidh fho-alt 10° d'Airteagal 29.4 den Bhunreacht: "11° Féadfaidh an Stát an Comhaontú maidir le Cúirt Aontaithe um Paitinní, arna dhéanamh sa Bhruiséil an 19ú lá d'Fheabhra, 2013, a dhaingniú. Ní dhéanann aon fhoráil atá sa Bhunreacht seo dlíthe a d'achtaigh, gníomhartha a rinne nó bearta a ghlac an Stát de bhíthin riachtanais na n-oibleagáidí atá ar an Stát faoin gComhaontú sin a chur ó bhail dlí ná cosc a chur le dlíthe a d'achtaigh, gníomhartha a rinne nó bearta a ghlac comhlachtaí atá inniúil faoin gComhaontú sin ó fheidhm dlí a bheith acu sa Stát." Má thoilíonn tú leis an togra, cuir X os coinne an fhocail ar an bpáipéar ballóide.

Mura dtoilíonn tú leis an togra, cuir X os coinne an fhocail Níl ar an bpáipéar ballóide.

Is féidir féachaint ar chóip den Bhille ar an idirlíon ag www.oireachtas.ie

I move:

THAT the statement set out in the Schedule to this Resolution be prescribed for the information of voters, pursuant to section 23 of the Referendum Act 1994 (No. 12 of 1994), in relation to the proposal to amend the Constitution which is contained in the Forty‑first Amendment of the Constitution (Agreement on a Unified Patent Court) Bill 2024 and is the subject of a constitutional referendum.
Schedule

Forty‑first Amendment of the Constitution (Agreement on a Unified Patent Court) Bill 2024

– Green Ballot Paper

Statement for the Information of Voters
You are being asked, in this referendum, if Ireland may ratify the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court.

The Forty‑first Amendment of the Constitution (Agreement on a Unified Patent Court) Bill 2024 proposes to insert the following subsection after subsection 10° of Article 29.4 of the Constitution:

"11° The State may ratify the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court done at Brussels on the 19th day of February 2013. No provision of this Constitution invalidates laws enacted, acts done or measures adopted by the State that are necessitated by the obligations of the State under that Agreement or prevents laws enacted, acts done or measures adopted by bodies competent under that Agreement from having the force of law in the State."

If you approve of the proposal, mark X opposite the word Yes on the ballot paper.

If you do not approve of the proposal, mark X opposite the word No on the ballot paper.

A copy of the Bill may be viewed on the internet at www.oireachtas.ie

Photo of Denis NaughtenDenis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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Tairgim leasú Uimh. 1:

Chun an méid seo a leanas a chur isteach i ndiaidh “Fiafraítear díot, sa reifreann seo, an bhféadfaidh Éire an Comhaontú maidir le Cúirt Aontaithe um Paitinní a dhaingniú”: “, chun bunú córais paitinne cuíchóirithe a éascú, rud a fhágfaidh gur fusa aireagáin a chosaint ar fud na 24 thír rannpháirteacha de chuid an Aontais Eorpaigh”.

I move amendment No. 1:

To insert the following after "You are being asked, in this referendum, if Ireland may ratify the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court": ", to facilitate the establishment of a streamlined patent system making it easier to protect inventions across the 24 participating European Union countries".

Cuireadh an leasú agus faisnéiseadh go rabhthas tar éis diúltú dó.

Amendment put and declared lost.

Cuireadh agus aontaíodh an cheist.

Question put and agreed to.