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More free votes? But how? And for what?

Elaine Byrne wrote today that “deep-seated institutional change must rebalance the relationship between the government and the Dáil….by reducing the power of the whip and allowing more issues to be decided by free votes.”

March 16, 2010 in Dail Reform, Electoral Reform.

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