Politicians will still have the final say on decisions reached by assembly

Unlike the Convention on the Constitution that preceded it there were no politicians appointed to the Citizen’s Assembly, writes Alison O’Connor

WHAT comfort this week’s outcome of the Oireachtas Water Committee must be giving to the members of the Citizens Assembly who have devoted so much of their energies, on our behalf, to the mind bending ramifications of the 8th Amendment.

Why should it matter to them you might wonder — well it is to just such a committee that their carefully considered recommendations are due to be sent. The question must surely now be: if this is what our national politicians do with water, then what hope for abortion?