Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

----- have served in the Seanad and they made a valuable contribution. We should open that up. Hopefully, in the term of the next Government we can turn it into a more democratic second Chamber that reflects republicanism in a deeper sense. It is outdated as it is. While the public marginally wanted to keep it, they made it very clear during canvassing for that referendum that they wanted substantial changes in it.

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