Seanad debates

Wednesday, 21 October 2009

2:30 pm

Photo of Eugene ReganEugene Regan (Fine Gael)

-----who are innocent about the ways in which business is conducted. In the way the Leader conducts it, the agenda is constructed to deal with limited business. It is the case in the way debates are conducted, the way Ministers fail to come into the House to answer Adjournment debates and the way Ministers are dismissive of amendments or legislative initiatives in this House. It is totally an extension of the Executive. The Leader has affected purposeful debate in this House as a result of those heavyhanded procedures.

Thirty years ago there was a constitutional referendum which extended, or was to have done so, the franchise of the university panels. That has been resisted by Independent Senators elected to this Chamber-----

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