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Making politics work.
(From Irish Independent)
Making politics workNEW proposals can result in replacing what works with what sounds good.
But the Oireachtas reform ideas put forward by both the Labour and the Green Party this week merit due attention.
Not least because the Dail neither works well, or sounds particularily good.
Many view it as remote and inept. Like the far pavilions; a distant irrelevance with vestiges of power, but not always taken seriously even by many of those under its roof.
Outdated procedures that muzzle meaningful or topical discussion have contributed to the atrophy. Question time - when the Taoiseach is supposedly called to account - is ridiculously short, with all the sparkle of a wet day at the Ballinasloe horse fair.
Attempts to bring live issues to the floor are invariably foiled by strict protocol and rigid adherence to Standing Orders.
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- Dail hit by porn virus.(News)
- Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England) September 29, 2003 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England) May 31, 2009 700+ words
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