On the evening of Monday, 29 January 2018, following a cabinet meeting where the decision was taken, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, TD, announced that the government would propose a referendum on Ireland’s constitutional abortion ban. In his announcement the Taoiseach made specific reference to the work of the Citizens’ Assembly. He also announced that, on the advice of Attorney General Séamus Woulfe, the proposed amendment would repeal and replace the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution with an enabling provision. Consequently, the government would follow the recom mendation of the Citizens’ Assembly, rather than the Joint Oireachtas Committee’s recommendation of repeal simpliciter. The government approved the wording of the referendum question on 8 March. The proposed Thirty-Sixth Amendment to the Constitution would repeal the Eighth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, and replace them with the following wording: provision may be made by law for the regulation of termination of pregnancies.

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健康服务，2018

2018 年 1 月 29 日星期一晚上，在内阁会议作出决定后，道教教长利奥·瓦拉德卡 (Taoiseach Leo Varadkar) 宣布，政府将提议就爱尔兰宪法禁止堕胎进行全民公投。在他的声明中，道长特别提到了公民大会的工作。他还宣布，根据司法部长 Séamus Woulfe 的建议，拟议的修正案将废除并以授权条款取代宪法第八修正案。因此，政府将遵循公民大会的建议，而不是议会联合委员会关于废除简单化的建议。政府于 3 月 8 日批准了公投问题的措辞。拟议的宪法第三十六条修正案将废除第八条，