Terry Leyden (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

-----the Constitutional Convention in Malahide, that beautiful part of the constituency of our leader in the Seanad. I asked the chairman, Tom Arnold, if it was ignoring the elephant in the room and how a convention that costs €60,000 for each meeting could not and would not discuss the most important change in the history of the State, the abolition of Seanad Éireann. I told him why the convention was ignoring it - because the Taoiseach was afraid the convention would not recommend the abolition of Seanad Éireann but its reform and he was afraid to put that question to the convention. If the convention cannot discuss that most important issue, why is it meeting at all?