Michael D'Arcy (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Earlier, Senator MacSharry discussed the reluctance, not just of the body politic itself but of the public to change. For instance, the Constitutional Convention was reluctant to move away from proportional representation through the single transferable vote, PR-STV. Can Professor Farrell shed some light on why the public and the body politic are reluctant to change a system which, in his analysis, is poorer than most? Why is there such reluctance to so do?