# seanad-reform - Thursday 1 February, 2018
# Seanad Reform
# Seanad Reform
Varadkar made the comment as he announced that a new committee on Seanad reform is to be set up.
# seanad-reform - Sunday 15 January, 2017
# Opinion
# Opinion
Voters chose by a narrow margin in a referendum in 2013 to retain the Seanad. It’s unlikely they are happy with that decision, writes Senator Gerard P Craughwell.
# seanad-reform - Friday 27 May, 2016
# Your Say
# Your Say
The Taoiseach’s nominees to the upper house will be announced today.
# seanad-reform - Sunday 1 May, 2016
# 1916 Pride
# 1916 Pride
Fintan Warfield thinks ‘you don’t have to be a Shinner to be a republican’.
# seanad-reform - Wednesday 14 October, 2015
# The Other House
# The Other House
Proposals to expand the electorate will not be implemented before the election.
# seanad-reform - Monday 20 April, 2015
# Mind = Blown
# Mind = Blown
Our minds are blown. Our heads hurt.
# seanad-reform - Monday 13 April, 2015
# Totally Rad
# Totally Rad
The Seanad Working Group on Reform has published a report calling for overhaul of the upper house.
# seanad-reform - Sunday 7 December, 2014
# The Upper Room
# The Upper Room
A working group will report back to the government by March.
# seanad-reform - Friday 28 March, 2014
# Friday Sitting
# Friday Sitting
Fianna Fáil’s proposal to overhaul the upper house will be opposed by the government.
# seanad-reform - Tuesday 11 March, 2014
# Oireachtas Agenda
# Oireachtas Agenda
Everything happening in Leinster House today.
# seanad-reform - Saturday 1 March, 2014
# Political Wallop
# Political Wallop
A wafer-thin majority and ‘the three amigos’ could all spell trouble for the coalition…
# seanad-reform - Wednesday 26 February, 2014
# Opposition Wins
# Opposition Wins
There was applause in the chamber, but not from Fine Gael or Labour senators.
# seanad-reform - Friday 14 February, 2014
# Seanad Reform
# Seanad Reform
Minister Phil Hogan said that the expansion is overdue.
# seanad-reform - Tuesday 4 February, 2014
# What Reform?
# What Reform?
Earlier, the Taoiseach promised that senators will get more work once legislation to give all third-level graduates a vote in Seanad elections is passed. The upper house is sitting for just a day-and-a-half this week.
# seanad-reform - Thursday 9 January, 2014
# Seanad Reform
# Seanad Reform
The party has published a bill to reform the upper house within the constraints of the current Constitution.
# seanad-reform - Wednesday 18 December, 2013
# Seanad Reform
# Seanad Reform
Enda Kenny has said the upper house can have greater powers of scrutiny but he does not intend to introduce universal suffrage for elections to the Seanad.
# seanad-reform - Tuesday 26 November, 2013
# Seanad Reform
# Seanad Reform
The government has not as yet considered any further reforms to the Seanad.
# Graduate Votes
# Graduate Votes
The Agriculture Minister welcomed reports that voting rights are to be extended to more graduates, but believes more ‘fundamental’ reform is needed.
# seanad-reform - Thursday 21 November, 2013
# Seanad Reform
# Seanad Reform
It’s the second time in six weeks that the Seanad has wrapped up its business for the week on a Wednesday.
# seanad-reform - Wednesday 23 October, 2013
# Seanad Reform
# Seanad Reform
“Well, I come in peace, not in war,” Kenny told members in the upper house this afternoon.
# seanad-reform - Friday 11 October, 2013
# Seanad Reform
# Seanad Reform
What to do with senators now they’re saved? Seán Kelly has an idea…
# seanad-reform - Thursday 10 October, 2013
# Seanad
# Seanad
The uncertainty over the future of the upper house meant that there wasn’t much business organised for this week.
# seanad-reform - Wednesday 9 October, 2013
# Opinion
# Opinion
With the onset of the crisis five years ago, the malaise in our political system came to the surface; now, thanks in part to the Seand referendum, it is bubbling over, writes Colin Murphy.
# seanad-reform - Tuesday 8 October, 2013
# Seanad Reform
# Seanad Reform
The Taoiseach has proposed all-party talks involving leaders in the Dáil and Seanad on what to do with the upper house.
# No Way Pal
# No Way Pal
On the first day back after the referendum result, David Norris has already hit out at the idea that senators should not be paid.
# seanad-reform - Monday 7 October, 2013
# Quinn-Zappone Bill
# Quinn-Zappone Bill
The Quinn-Zappone bill is being talked about a lot right now. But what’s in it? We take a look…
# Liam Adams
# Liam Adams
The Sinn Féin president was asked about his brother Liam, the Seanad referendum and his own future in an interview this morning.
# seanad-reform - Sunday 6 October, 2013
# Opinion
# Opinion
Some cynics claim that the government will do nothing about the Seanad now, but they are ignoring the reality that 93 per cent of the people oppose the status quo, writes Larry Donnelly.
# Seanad Reform
# Seanad Reform
One of their members Denis Naughten TD also says that “there might have been a different result on Saturday had the Dáil had been reformed first.”
# Seanad Reform
# Seanad Reform
The Minister says certain changes could be brought about under the existing constitution, but that more sweeping reforms may need another vote.
# seanad-reform - Saturday 5 October, 2013
# Seanad Reform
# Seanad Reform
The government must now decide what it plans to do with the retained upper house.
# seanad-reform - Tuesday 1 October, 2013
# Opinion
# Opinion
Some might argue that a bad Seanad is better than no Seanad – but having a “bad” Seanad is far worse, inspiring only cynicism and harming the political process, writes Ale White TD.
# Opinion
# Opinion
In pushing for Seanad abolition, the government is trying to strip a layer of democracy designed to give fundamental protections to citizens, writes Niall Collins TD.
# seanad-reform - Tuesday 20 August, 2013
# Seanad Recall
# Seanad Recall
The recall to debate transplant legislation shows the role that a reformed Seanad could have says a Fianna Fáil senator.
# seanad-reform - Friday 9 August, 2013
# Seanad
# Seanad
Support for the plan to get rid of the Seanad is down, but is still 13 points ahead in the poll.
# seanad-reform - Saturday 3 August, 2013
# Seanad
# Seanad
In an interview with TheJournal.ie, Bruton called for politicians not to “reduce to name-calling” as the campaign ramps up.
# seanad-reform - Wednesday 26 June, 2013
# Taoiseach
# Taoiseach
The Taoiseach told senators today that abolishing the upper house is the biggest package of reform since the passing of the Constitution in 1937.
# seanad-reform - Wednesday 19 June, 2013
# Opinion
# Opinion
I have a lot of time for the Taoiseach, but his leadership has been autocratic and even authoritarian in a representative democracy and I find this unsettling, writes Larry Donnelly.
# seanad-reform - Friday 17 May, 2013
# Opinion
# Opinion
While there are practical arguments for a bill that requires no constitutional change, it limits any reform across the whole legislative body, writes Eoin O’Malley.
# seanad-reform - Sunday 12 May, 2013
# Seanad Reform
# Seanad Reform
Feargal Quinn and Katherine Zappone will call a vote this Wednesday on plans to overhaul how the chamber is elected.
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