Brian Ó Domhnaill (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

My final comment will be on political reform. Let us take the speculation out of politics. Let us reform a simple thing such as the nature of Dáil terms. Why not have a fixed term of either four or five years? The measure would remove speculation and provide consistency like that available across the water, where a certain percentage of members can vote. It would be a much better system. There are ways we can reform politics. Unless we reform things properly and independently, we will end up with the same type of reform which occurred in the local government sector and which has achieved nothing.