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Text of the proposed Constitutional amendment to facilitate the Fiscal Treaty

  • 27-03-2012 4:41pm
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    Grolschevik
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    GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCES 31 MAY AS THE DATE FOR THE STABILITY TREATY REFERENDUM

    At a meeting of the Government this morning the date was set for the referendum on the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union. The referendum on the Stability Treaty will take place on Thursday 31 May.

    The Government also decided on the wording of the proposed amendment to the Constitution, which was prepared by the Attorney General. The Irish people are being asked to ratify the Treaty and to enable the Oireachtas to adopt any legislation in order to implement the Treaty.

    The Bill to amend the Constitution is now being prepared for publication towards the end of this week. Once this has taken place, the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Phil Hogan T.D., will sign the order establishing the Referendum Commission.



    The amendment involves the insertion of the following subsection after subsection 9º of Article 29.4 of the Constitution:

    “10° The State may ratify the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union done at Brussels on the 2nd day of March 2012. No provision of this Constitution invalidates laws enacted, acts done or measures adopted by the State that are necessitated by the obligations of the State under that Treaty or prevents laws enacted, acts done or measures adopted by bodies competent under that Treaty from having the force of law in the State.”.’.

    The full text of the Treaty is available in both Irish and English on www.merrionstreet.ie


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