Shane Ross (Independent)

As everybody in the House knows, the Dáil will be dissolved soon whereas the Seanad will not be and the business of Government will go on. In view of the fact that many Members of the Seanad have raised issues they want debated, could the time be used when this House is still in session and the Dáil is not to debate those matters which several Senators wish to have debated? There is a lacuna in the parliamentary process whereby when the Dáil is dissolved the Seanad de facto dissolves itself even though de jure it is not. This time could certainly be used because the business of Government goes on without challenge in that period.