Brian Hayes (Dublin South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

As someone who avidly reads the Constitution, as far as I am concerned, this House has done its job in so far as the Constitution allows. I have always made that point. However, the question which the Government is united in putting forward is a fundamental question of first principles, whether our parliamentary democracy needs a second House of Parliament. This question is really the issue which the Irish people will be asked to decide upon in the autumn period.