Seanad debates
Wednesday, 2 July 2003
Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Bill 2002: Report and Final Stages.
As I said yesterday, there are two Houses of the Oireachtas. There is no logic or rationality in this measure. If we are setting up something new, there should not be a public service read across it to the effect that Department X might want to have a deputy Secretary General. We should do what is right for us. The Houses of the Oireachtas differ from a Department in this crucial respect: there are two Houses in the Oireachtas. It is not a single, unified body in the way most Departments are, at least in theory.
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