Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The people of Ireland are looking up to their Taoiseach and want to hear his arguments and what he has to say on the abolition of the Seanad, but he refuses the opportunity to go on prime-time television and debate the matter with people with differing views from his own. What is the Taoiseach doing tonight that is so important that he cannot go on television to debate a matter of national importance, a referendum that he instigated? He started the move to abolish the Seanad.

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