Maurice Cummins (Fine Gael)

This is the position of the Government and it awaits the advice of the Attorney General. The Government is quite clear that if the Constitution needs to be amended, a referendum will be held. This should be clear enough for everyone.

With regard to the Water Services (Amendment) Bill I do not propose to have additional time as an hour and a half will be sufficient. We discussed the Bill for 18 hours and today we will deal with several amendments back from the other House. An hour and a half will be more than sufficient unless we have repetition and filibustering as we did during the course of the debate previously.