The Statute of the International Criminal Court was concluded at Rome on 17 July 1998 and was signed, subject to ratification, by Ireland on 7 October 1998. It will enter into force two months after 60 states have become party to it. My information is that to date 96 states have signed the statute and, of these, ten have now ratified the statute.
An amendment to the Constitution is required to enable the State to ratify the statute. Work on the drafting of a Bill containing a proposal for such an amendment is now in hand and I hope to be in a position to present the Bill to the Oireachtas shortly, once this work has been completed.