TDs slam planned citizens’ assembly as a ‘charade’

TDs have slammed the Government’s planned citizens’ assembly which is set to look into repealing the Eighth Amendment.

Fine Gael last night moved to seek support for a citizens’ assembly which will examine numerous issues including the country’s aging population, fixed-term parliaments and the possibility of repealing the Eight Amendment.

But Ruth Coppinger of the AAA-PBP group described the establishment of a citizens’ assembly as a “charade that the Government felt they had to come up with”.