“It will inevitably copper-fasten power with a very small elite and it will leave us in a worse position than we are in now,” he said. “Handing absolute power to a dysfunctional Dail which is already just a servant to an executive beggars belief.”
Diarmaid Ferriter, Professor of Modern Irish History at UCD, speaking at the launch of Democracy Matters this morning, a pressure group urging ‘reform not abolition’ of the senate.
From left:, Diarmaid Ferriter, Olive Braiden, Chair of the National Gallery of Ireland, journalist Una Mullally, and Professor Gary Murphy, DCU School of Law and Government
Sandymount is missing a dinner party.
McDowell plea over Seanad proposals (Irish Independent)
Pic: Tony Kinlan
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