Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 31 May 2016
692. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health following the UN universal periodic review in early May 2016, if the Department of Justice and Equality has made any contact with him regarding Ireland's obligations to uphold women's rights to health, physical and mental, by organising a constitutional referendum to repeal the eighth amendment. [12974/16]
View answerMy officials are in regular contact with officials in the Department of Justice and Equality in relation to the Universal Periodic Review and an official in my Department was a member of the National Delegation at the United Nations Periodic Review in Geneva on 11 May this year.
The Government have made a commitment in the most recent Programme for Government to establish a Citizen’s Assembly to make recommendations to the Dáil on further constitutional changes and they will consider the Eighth Amendment as part of this work.
