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The Citizens' Assembly follows the model used for the Convention on the Constitution. The Citizens' Assembly is a totally separate entity from the Convention on the Constitution. Establishment of the Convention on the Constitution was approved by Resolution of both Houses of the Oireachtas in July 2012. The Convention’s membership comprised 66 randomly-selected citizens, 33 politicians from both Houses of the Oireachtas and the Northern Ireland Assembly and an independent chair. The Resolution set out eight specific topics that the Convention was asked to consider and report on to the Oireachtas. The Convention also examined two matters which it selected for itself. The previous Government responded in the Dáil to all nine of the Convention’s Reports, as follows: - to the First Report, on Reducing the Voting Age and the Presidential Term, on 18 July 2013, - to the Second Report, on the Role of Women and Women in Politics, on 10 October 2013, - to the Third Report, on Same Sex Marriage, on 17 December 2013, - to the Fourth Report, on Electoral Reform, on 18 December 2014, - to the Sixth Report, on Blasphemy, on 2 October 2014, and - to the Fifth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth Reports, on amending the Constitution to give citizens resident outside the State the right to vote in Presidential elections; Dáil Reform; Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and; Conclusions and Final Recommendations, respectively, on 14 January 2016. The responses are all available online at www.oireachtas.ie. In responding to the Convention’s Reports, the previous Government accepted six recommendations for Constitutional change: on marriage equality, reducing the voting age to 16, reducing the age threshold for candidacy for Presidential elections, removing the offence of blasphemy from the Constitution, enhancing the reference in the Constitution to the office of Ceann Comhairle to give it more status, and including a reference to Oireachtas Committees in the Constitution. Referendums were held on two of these issues in May 2015, on reducing the age threshold for candidacy in Presidential elections and on marriage equality. The marriage equality referendum passed by a majority of 62.1%. To view more information on the work of the Convention, please visit their website.
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Coinbhinsiún ar an mBunreacht Tá an leagan amach céanna ar an Tionól Saoránach agus a bhí ar an gCoinbhinsiún ar an mBunreacht. Is eintiteas iomlán neamhspleách an Tionól Saoránach ón gCoinbhinsiún ar an mBunreacht. Ceadaíodh bunú an Choinbhinsiúin le Rún ó dhá Theach an Oireachtais in Iúil 2012. Bhí 66 ball sa Choinbhinsiún. Roghnaíodh iad sin go randamach. Lena gcois sin, tá 33 polaiteoir as dhá Theach an Oireachtais agus as Tionól Thuaisceart Éireann, mar aon le cathaoirleach neamhspleách. Leagadh amach ocht n-ábhar ar leith sa Rún ar iarradh ar an gCoinbhinsiún iad a bhreithniú agus tuairisciú orthu don Oireachtas. Scrúdaigh an Coinbhinsiún dhá cheist eile a roghnaigh sé é féin. Thug an Rialtas a bhí ann roimhe seo freagra sa Dáil ar gach ceann de naoi dTuairisc an Choinbhinsiú, mar a leanas: - ar an gCéad Tuairisc, maidir le hAois Vótála agus Téarma an Uachtaráin, ar an 18 Iúil 2013, - ar an Dara Tuairisc, maidir le Ról na mBan agus Mná sa Pholaitíocht, ar an 10 Deireadh Fómhair 2013 - ar an Tríú Tuairisc, maidir leis an bPósadh Comhghnéis, ar an 17 Nollaig 2013 - ar an gCeathrú Tuairisc, maidir le Leasú Toghcháin, ar an 18 Nollaig 2014 - ar an Séú Tuairisc, maidir le Diamhaslú, ar an 2 Deireadh Fómhair 2014, agus - ar an gCúigiú, ar an Seachtú, ar an Ochtú agus ar an Naoú Tuairisc, maidir leis an mBunreacht a leasú chun ceart a bhronnadh ar shaoránaigh a bhfuil cónaí orthu taobh amuigh den Stát vótáil i dtoghcháin Uachtaránachta; Leasú na Dála; Cearta Eacnamaíochta, Sóisialta agus Cultúrtha, agus; Conclúidí agus Moltaí Deireanacha, faoi seach, ar an 14 Eanáir 2016. Tá na freagraí ar fáil ar líne ag www.oireachtas.ie. Agus iad ag tabhairt freagra ar Thuairiscí an Choinbhinsiúin, ghlac an Rialtas a bhí ann roimhe seo le sé mholadh maidir leis an mBunreacht a athrú: comhionannas pósta, an aois vótála a laghdú go 16, an tairseach aoise d'iarrthóirí Uachtaránachta a laghdú, cion an diamhaslaithe a bhaint den Bhunreacht, cur leis an tagairt d'oifig an Chinn Comhairle d'fhonn stádas níos mó a thabhairt di, agus tagairt a chur sa Bhunreacht do Choistí Oireachtais. Reáchtáladh reifrinn ar dhá cheann de na hábhair seo i mBealtaine 2015, maidir le tairseach aoise iarrthóirí Uachtaránachta a laghdú agus maidir le comhionannas pósta. D'éirigh le reifreann an chomhionannais phósta le móramh 62.1%. Chun tuilleadh eolais a fháil ar obair an Choinbhinsiúin, téigh go dtí a láithreán gréasáin.