Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I hope that far from obstructing Bills like the bankruptcy Bill the Deputy will co-operate and see they are put through in the interests of everybody.

I had a view about the Seanad that I would have liked to have seen it abolished. The people gave me their answer and I accepted it. Following that, I was very grateful to former Senators Manning and O'Toole, Mr. Tom Arnold, Dr. Elaine Byrne and others, who set up the working group and had no vested interests other than to put forward a number of radical and innovative ways of dealing with the matter. They made the central point that were this to be accepted, and I accepted it although it is not accepted by Deputies Micheál Martin or Gerry Adams----

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