Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

The Taoiseach is a recent convert to the abolition of the Seanad. Some of us have expressed the view for decades that it is thoroughly undemocratic and a rotten elitist borough which should go. Is the Taoiseach aware of the suspicion that nothing tangible has been done in this regard in a year and a half because he is under pressure from many members of his own party and of the Labour Party who fear being dumped overboard in the next general election and want a political lifeboat to hand to pluck them from the waters?

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