Seanad debates
Thursday, 26 June 2003
Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Bill 2002: Second Stage.
I also accept the point that not all Senators have a similar approach. I am burdened with a constituency of 100,000 people, with six of us in the group. If any one of those people decides to write to their constituents, everything stops for a fortnight. That is the reality. There is an understanding that we will increase the numbers, but it is certainly unfair at the moment. With only 60 people in the House dealing with the same volume of legislation as the other House, it would seem for legislative reasons alone there is three times the reason for having support here as in the other House. In order to make it work it must be done.
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