Camillus Glynn (Fianna Fail)

Last year, 1,199 amendments were made in the Seanad at all Stages. When the raft of equality legislation went through the Dáil in 1993, one Bill focused on the issue of unlawful dismissal. It established for the first time in law sexual orientation as a ground for discrimination in employment matters. The Bill went through the preliminary consultation process, eventually passed all Stages in the Dáil and arrived at the Seanad. Eight grounds of discrimination were set out in the Bill, but Senator Quinn noticed that one important ground had been totally left out - discrimination on grounds of age. In the Electoral (Amendment) Bill there was all-party agreement to a ban on opinion polls in the period before elections. On discovery that a poll could be published on the morning of the election the provision was deleted in the Seanad and its deletion subsequently agreed in the Dáil.