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The bill must then be submitted to a referendum in which all Irish citizens on the electoral register are eligible to vote. [7] In July 2018, Minister for Justice and Equality Charlie Flanagan announced the intention of the government to hold a referendum deleting Article 41.2 from the Constitution. [8]
DUBLIN (Reuters) -Irish voters have rejected proposals to replace constitutional references to the makeup of a family and a mother's "duties in the home" in a significant defeat for the government.
The government also proposed that the first two items for consideration would be lowering the voting age from 18 to 17, and reducing the President's term of office. [2] Issues upon which the government had already committed to holding a referendum would not be within the convention's remit. [43]
No legislation was enacted in the aftermath of the defeated 12th referendum. In 2002, the proposed Twenty-fifth Amendment would have similarly excluded the risk of suicide as grounds for an abortion. On this occasion, the government proposal did have the support of the Pro Life Campaign. This too was rejected in a referendum, but by a much ...
The intervening general election is presumed to have given the same mandate for the bill that an ordinary referendum would have given. If either happens, the President must then sign the bill. If neither happens, the bill lapses by default. The authority to decide whether to hold a referendum is vested in the Government by the Referendum Act ...
Amendments to the Constitution of Ireland are only possible by way of referendum. A proposal to amend the Constitution of Ireland must be initiated as a bill in Dáil Éireann , be passed by both Houses of the Oireachtas (parliament), then submitted to a referendum, and finally signed into law by the president of Ireland .
The Citizens' Assembly (Irish: An Tionól Saoránach [1] and also known as We The Citizens [2]) is a citizens' assembly established in Ireland in 2016 to consider several political questions including the Constitution of Ireland. [3] Questions considered include: abortion, fixed term parliaments, referendums, population ageing, and climate change.
The Twentieth Amendment of the Constitution Act 2001 is an amendment to the Constitution of Ireland which provided constitutional recognition of local government and required that local government elections occur at least once in every five years. It was approved by referendum on 11 June