Gerard Craughwell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Getting back to the Order of Business, Articles 18 and 19 of Bunreacht na hÉireann deal with the elections of the Seanad and I ask the Leader to organise a debate with the Minister on the next election for the Seanad. Every day, I sit in here and hear some small few colleagues talking about their constituency. We do not have a constituency. We are national politicians. This is a revising and reforming House and we do not have a geographical constituency. We need to get away from that. We are not even supposed to have clinics and offices but are supposed to be here reforming and revising legislation. Perhaps we could have a debate on that and perhaps we could close nominations to the Seanad on the same day that they close for the Dáil. I know that the Cathaoirleach will support that and I can see that already.