Mark Daly (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Will the Minister of State indicate what the Government proposes to do now that it is trying to get rid of the Seanad and there will be no mechanism to properly scrutinise EU legislation or statutory instruments? Political scientists have said time and again that we have a dysfunctional system that does not work. We are taking it apart and removing 75 sections of the Constitution but we do not have a proposed mechanism to do the job better that is currently being done badly by our democratic and legislative system. We are making a bad situation worse.

It was news to me, and the Minister of State might not be fully aware that by the time one adds up EU directives, regulations and statutory instruments, which are entirely the prerogative-----