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The office has its origins in Article 62 of the Constitution of the Irish Free State of 1922 as implemented by the Comptroller and Auditor-General Act 1923, [3] which provided that the Comptroller and Auditor-General (Irish: Árd-Scrúdóir) (as the office was then known) was to be appointed by Dáil Éireann.
United Ireland: Article 2, as substituted after the Good Friday Agreement, asserts that "every person born in the island of Ireland" has the right "to be part of the Irish Nation"; however, Article 9.2 now limits this to persons having at least one parent as an Irish citizen. Article 3 declares that it is the "firm will of the Irish Nation" to ...
Played a subsidiary role in the Northern Ireland peace process, as Sinn Féin boycotted the Forum but not the talks that led to the Good Friday Agreement: Constitutional Convention: Appointed (Chair), nominated (33), randomly selected (66) Irish government: 2012–14: State of Ireland: To consider specified proposed amendments to the existing ...
Fourth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland referendum [1] Choice Votes % Yes: 724,836: 84.64: No 131,514 15.36 Valid votes 856,350 94.79 Invalid or blank votes
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.
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 .
During the 1950s the Catholic Integrist group Maria Duce, led by Irish Catholic priest Denis Fahey, launched a campaign to amend the Article 44 of the Constitution of Ireland. [3] Fahey argued that this was insufficient and that the Constitution should recognise the Catholic Church as being divinely ordained and separate from 'man-made ...
Ardagh v Maguire [2002] IESC 21; [2002] 1 IR 385 [1] was a landmark Irish Supreme Court case on the separation of powers under the Constitution of Ireland.The Court ruled that the holding of an inquiry by the Joint Oireachtas [national parliament] Subcommittee was acting outside the constitutional powers of the Houses of the Oireachtas. [2]