David Norris (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I have today discovered from an unimpeachable source, who is centrally involved in all these discussions about Seanad reform and all the rest of it with the Taoiseach and the Fine Gael Party, that the Taoiseach and the Fine Gael Party established a sub-committee to look at the Seanad and it unanimously endorsed reform. There was then a focus group report, a public relations exercise, that said to the Government that a populist stunt that would bear votes for it would be to talk for the abolition of the Seanad. That is what actually happened.