Ballots so far are suggesting a loss for the Government on both questions around Family and Care
He told"I think the people of Ireland, who are the sovereign power in this State, looked at this set of proposals and said no," he said.
"The Government failed completely to convince the electorate that these changes to the Constitution were worthwhile."We're now realising that Ministers were saying things about the Attorney-General's advice which simply just didn't stack up.'Unthought out social experiment'"They used the guillotine to shove this through both Houses of the Oireachtas without proper debate," he said.
"They just assumed that they would just run it past the people of the country with vacuous posters saying, 'Family/Care: Yes'.Senator McDowell said the results will have a 'short-term effect' for the Government"that they are badly out of touch with public opinion". He added that they may 'learn a lesson' that they should deal with bigger issues like housing and asylum seekers rather than an"unthought-out social experimentation with the Constitution".'s referendum widget at the top of the homepage
Main image: Michael McDowell at the Disclosures Tribunal in Dublin Castle, 6-3-18. Image: Leah Farrell/ RollingNews.ie
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