THE ALL-PARTY consensus on the children’s rights referendum could be eroded if the poll is not held soon, Fianna Fáil TD Mary O’Rourke has warned.
The former education minister chaired the Oireachtas joint committee that arrived at an agreed wording to put before the people.
“We had a great consensus built up, that gave its own momentum towards the holding [of the referendum] and I fear falling back from that will have undesirable consequences in that the consensus would begin to fritter away,” Ms O’Rourke told RTÉ’s News at One yesterday.
