Fáilte ~ Welcome
These are very challenging times. Ireland needs strong social values to respond to them. Only with an effective Oireachtas can we restore trust in politics, promote integrity in business and rebuild our communities.
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If our Government believes in true political reform over reaching for the cookie jar of populist ideas, then it will want to offer Irish citizens a real political alternative on referendum day: either a) abolish the Seanad or b) reform the Seanad according to pre-drafted legislative framework. That would be a referendum worth holding. The only obstacle in its way that I can see is that it might require more critical thinking than the simplistic solution proposed by this Government.
Seanad Reform
Is it not the case that the real failure was that time and again, Seanadóirí failed to stand up for the privileges of the Seanad? They failed to stand up to party leaders. The next Seanad must not seek to be radical rather than redundant. It must seek to be independent rather than redundant. We will not be well served by a future Seanad composed of members of the governing parties who seek only to do the wishes of the leaders of those parties.
