Seanad debates
Tuesday, 25 March 2003
Local Government Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages.
If there are legal and constitutional difficulties it allows time for this to be thrashed out. I know people in Senator Dardis's party who have already given up their seats and who may well find that they have done the wrong thing. It would be better from a practical point of view to allow the legal and constitutional issues to be aired to establish whether this provision is unconstitutional and to allow people to adjust and to make their choice. They are not being allowed to run without giving up their seats first, therefore there should be a period of adjustment. That is the relevance of the argument. I cannot see how the arguments I have made are irrelevant to the amendment.
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