The first hearing of the citizens assembly is likely to take place before November.
Over 100 people will participate in the convention, which will examine the Eighth amendment first.
An appropriate person will shortly be appointed to chair the assembly.
It is expected Taoiseach Enda Kenny will appoint a judge to oversee the convention.
Among the other issues to be examined by the assembly are fixed-term parliaments. The first hearing of the citizens assembly is likely to take place before November.
Over 100 people will participate in the convention, which will examine the Eighth amendment first.
An appropriate person will shortly be appointed to chair the assembly.
It is expected Taoiseach Enda Kenny will appoint a judge to oversee the convention.
Among the other issues to be examined by the assembly are fixed-term parliaments.
Mr Kenny will bring a memorandum to Government this week proposing the establishment of a citizens’ assembly to consider the abortion issue.
However, Government sources said the process would move slowly in an attempt to achieve “consensus” on what, if any, changes should be made.
Last week Mr Kenny said a recent adverse finding by the UN Human Rights Committee about Ireland’s abortion laws was “non-binding” and “not like the European Court”.
The committee found a woman carrying a foetus with a fatal abnormality had been subjected to discrimination and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment due to the ban on abortion.
It called for the prohibition to be reversed to allow women to voluntarily terminate a pregnancy safely.
The Eighth Amendment, which was approved in a referendum in 1983, acknowledges the right to life of the unborn, with due regard to the equal right to life of the mother.