O'Rourke seeks date for referendum [IrishTimes]
- Published: 21 April 2010
FIANNA FÁIL TD Mary O’Rourke has called on the Government to set a date for a referendum on children’s rights, but Taoiseach Brian Cowen refused to commit to a date when pressed by the Opposition in the Dáil yesterday.
Ms O’Rourke, who chaired the cross-party committee that produced the report proposing a referendum that could result in a new article 42 in the Constitution, said she wanted the referendum to take place this year.
“We honoured the task we were given, now I hope that Government is going to honour the task it told the electorate it was going to do,” she said.
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