[1] The proposed amendments are on judicial salaries pay cuts, and to provide additional powers to Oireachtas committees.
An application to prevent both referendums from going ahead was refused by the Supreme Court on 26 October 2011.
[4] The Irish Council for Civil Liberties said the information provided to voters in advance of polling in the two constitutional referendums was "tardy and inadequate".
This is intended to protect the independence of the judiciary and prevent governments from imposing pay cuts as a reprisal for judgments with which they disagree.
[8] The Supreme Court of Ireland found the Oireachtas did not have an inherent power to conduct inquiries, and that it overstepped its jurisdiction when it set up the Abbeylara inquiry into the shooting of John Carthy in Abbeylara, County Longford, in 2000.