Voters in the Republic will be asked one question in the referendum on May 22nd: Do you approve of the proposal to amend the Constitution contained in the undermentioned Bill?
Nineteenth Amendment of the Constitution Bill, 1998.
The Bill provides for constitutional changes arising from the agreement reached on Good Friday in the multi-party talks at Stormont.
It includes proposed changes to Articles 2 and 3 of the Constitution, and also proposed additions to Article 29 to allow the State to be bound by the terms of the Belfast Agreement.
The Bill also lays down that the constitutional changes will not come into effect until the necessary measures are taken in both jurisdictions to implement all the provisions of the multiparty agreement.
Voters in Northern Ireland will also be asked one question in a referendum on May 22nd:
Do you support the agreement reached in the multi-party talks on Northern Ireland and set out in Command Paper 3883? (Technical parliamentary term for the Belfast Agreement)
Belfast Agreement on the `Irish Times on the Web'
The text of the Belfast Agreement is available on The Irish Times on the Web (http://www.irishtimes.com). It is included in an online supplement, The Path to Peace, which features the full content of the supplement published in The Irish Times on April 11th.
The site also contains a chronology of Irish history, beginning with the first Norman incursion in 1169 and concluding on April 9th, on the eve of the agreement. News updates on the situation in advance of the referendums on May 22nd will be available daily.
In addition to external links there are internal links to many of the documents which helped pave the path to peace, including the Sunningdale and Anglo-Irish Agreements, the Downing Street Declaration and the Report of the International Body on Decommissioning.
In an effort to encourage debate on the agreement and the referendums, The Path to Peace now also features a discussion forum.