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Seanad: Seanad Reform: Motion (29 Jan 2014)

Feargal Quinn: ...reform measures yet earlier this month Democracy Matters published a paper that set out six core principles around which this House can unite, and Senator Zappone has included some of them in her motion. The Seanad Bill 2013, which Senator Zappone and I published, and the Bill published by Senator Crown, light the path towards reform of this House, and today's motion rightly focuses on two...

Seanad: Seanad Reform: Motion (29 Jan 2014)

Ivana Bacik: ...Matters for the defeat of the referendum on Seanad abolition in October. That defeat gives us a welcome chance and an imperative to reform. On both sides of the debate, there was an understanding that if the Seanad was to continue after the referendum, it should be reformed fundamentally. I very much welcome the fact that a number of us met the Taoiseach on 18 December and that at that...

Seanad: Seanad Reform: Motion (29 Jan 2014)

Maurice Cummins: ...be considered at a later date.”. I welcome the Minister of State to the House. There have been many discussions during the lifetime of the 24th Seanad on its work, composition and its very existence. Senator Zappone has put forward some very convincing proposals in her motion today and I congratulate her on bringing the subject of Seanad reform before the House again. So many...

Seanad: Seanad Reform: Motion (29 Jan 2014)

Katherine Zappone: I welcome the Minister of State to the House for this afternoon's motion. I stand here to propose that this House should be reformed according to two principles that are cornerstones of any genuine democracy, and that this House should be reformed with a sense of urgency by the immediate establishment of an all-party task force so we can have meaningful reform in advance of the next Seanad...