Seanad debates

Wednesday, 18 June 2003

There is a simple way to get around this. The House of Commons closes down on the day an election is announced and nobody can get into it for three or four weeks. That practice would sort out the problem for us. Equally, Cabinet Ministers' offices and Ministers of States' offices should be out of bounds to them for the three or four weeks. None of the Ministers' officials should deal with any constituency queries during that period. It is grossly unfair that public money is used to fund Ministers' campaigns. We have seen this happen in recent years on all party fronts, my own included. The way to stop this practice is to close Departments for use by politicians of those Departments for the three or four week period of the election. We should also close down this House for that period. This would resolve the problem.

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