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The Government will make a decision on holding a second Lisbon Treaty referendum before a meeting of EU ministers next month, the Minister for Foreign Affairs said today.

Micheál Martin said the Government will table proposals at a European Council meeting next month to deal with the impasse following the Irish electorate’s rejection of the treaty in a referendum last June.

“We have indicated that by December, we will bring the elements of a solution to the December council meeting of all the European states,” he told RTÉ’s This Week In Politicsprogramme, to be broadcast tonight. “We’re working on that at the moment in terms of a range of issues.”