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A second referendum on a proposal to replace language surrounding a woman's duties in the home with a clause recognising the role of family members in the provision of care was rejected by 73.9% ...
The government of Ireland held two referendums on 8 March 2024 on proposed amendments to the Constitution of Ireland. The Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023 proposed to expand the constitutional definition of family to include durable relationships outside marriage.
A referendum was planned to be held on 7 June 2024 on ratification of the Agreement on the Unified Patent Court. [20] [21] However, in April 2024, the government indicated that it was considering postponing the referendum. [22] The following bills have been on the order paper for consideration in the Oireachtas.
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 ...
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.
An ordinary referendum, on a bill other than an amendment to the Constitution, for which a referendum is only required on petition of Oireachtas members, and the bill is passed by a majority of those eligible to vote. There have been 38 referendums for amendments to the Constitution of Ireland. There have been no ordinary referendums.
The extensive, official voting and election material regularly sent to every citizen each time – usually four times a year – compromising the pros and cons by all political proponents; here, to Berne's citizen in November 2008 about 5 national, 2 cantonal, 4 municipal referendums, and 2 elections (government and parliament of the City of ...
Two days before the referendum was held, in McCrystal v. Minister for Children the Supreme Court ruled that the government had breached the constitution by using public funds to publish and distribute information concerning the referendum that was biased in favour of a yes vote. [20] In 1995 in the case of McKenna v.