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Minister Fitzgerald Welcomes Announcement of Saturday Date for Children’s Referendum

  • Saturday November 10th announced as polling day
  • 31st Amendment to the Constitution Bill to be published tomorrow

Children & Youth Affairs Minister Frances Fitzgerald has today welcomed the announcement by Taoiseach Enda Kenny that the Children’s Referendum will be held on Saturday November 10th.

Minister Fitzgerald stated:

This Referendum is one of the most significant in the history of the State, which after years of inaction I am now bringing forward.

I am very pleased by the decision of Government to hold this historic Referendum on a Saturday.

This Referendum proposes a child-centred change to our Constitution and I think it is only right that we are taking a similar, child-centred approach to the holding of a Referendum, by naming a Saturday as polling date.