Some 2.3 million booklets explaining the citizenship referendum will be posted to every home in the State this week.
Households in Cork will be the first to receive the booklets. Those in Dublin will be the last.
The booklet is already available on the website www.refcom.ie
Voters will be asked to vote Yes or No to the Government proposal in the citizenship referendum, which takes place on the same day as the local and European elections on June 11th.
Voters will be asked whether they approve of the proposal to amend the Constitution.
The ballot paper will read:
"Do you approve of the proposal to amend the Constitution in the undermentioned Bill?
"Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004."
Voters will be asked to mark the box for Yes if they approve of the proposed amendment, and No if they disapprove of it.
The ballot paper will state that voters should place a mark in only one square. Their vote will be spoiled otherwise.
The Bill will remove the automatic entitlement to Irish citizenship of every child born on the island of Ireland by empowering the Oireachtas to introduce legislation to determine when a baby born to non-Irish or non-EU parents can receive Irish citizenship.
While the wording which will be inserted into Article 9 of the Constitution will not appear on the ballot paper, it will be printed on the back of voters' polling cards.
The cards will be posted by local authorities to homes about 10 days before polling day.
Registered voters are entitled to vote even if they do not receive a polling card.
While those who do not receive a card are advised to contact their local authority, the deadline for applications for inclusion on the supplementary register passed yesterday.
The polling cards will say that the Bill proposes to insert the following section after Section 1 of Article 9 of the Constitution: "Notwithstanding any other provision of this Constitution, a person born in the island of Ireland, which includes its islands and seas, who does not have, at the time of the birth of that person, at least one parent who is an Irish citizen or entitled to be an Irish citizen, is not entitled to Irish citizenship or nationality unless provided by law."
It adds: "This section shall not apply to persons born before the date of the enactment of this section."
