Seanad debates

Thursday, 6 March 2003

Local Government Bill 2003: Committee Stage.

 

Dealing with funding for elections is not all about limits, it is about transparency. Questions of whether a person spends "X" or "Y" are artificial. The manner in which they received their funding should be the core question. The system should ask who funded whom, by what means and how much money was provided. Many of us ended up in a nonsensical position in the last general election, including the Cathaoirleach. The degree of high farce achieved could only have been dreamed about before. I intend to repeal rather than amend the Bill. It deserves to be binned, after which we will introduce a straightforward system which can be debated by the House when the legislation is before it.

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