By David Stanton TD It is clear to everyone that our parliamentary system needs reform. Dáil Éireann in its current state is not fit for purpose. Fine Gael recently published a policy document “New Politics” which sets out wide-ranging proposals for Dáil reform including the abolition of the Seanad. We have not addressed the electoral…
By Michael Gallagher The novelty of the leaders’ debates at the 2010 British general election has focused attention on this aspect of election campaigns, especially given the sudden surge in Lib Dem support in mid-April after party leader Nick Clegg was widely adjudged the winner of the first debate. Not surprisingly, the Labour Party here…
By David Gwynn Morgan, Professor of Law, University College Cork Recently, the President of the High Court (Kearns P) announced that the long-awaited judicial council for standards and conduct might be set up this year (Irish Times, April 12). Surprisingly, the present system is still the one which grew up in reaction to the absolute monarchs…
Here’s a link to Fine Gael’s reform proposals in 1985. It was pretty limited in ambition, but interestingly most of what they debated was introduced and to little effect. Presumably at the time these were thought to be somewhat radical. Which may go to show that changes don’t always have the effects we expect.
David Farrell The Fine Gael New Politics reform document deserves a close read. There may be details that any one of us might disagree with (e.g. why waste time voting to reduce the President’s term by two years?); there may be other issues we might have liked to have seen included that aren’t (e.g. the…
Noel Whelan’s Irish Times article on FG’s reform proposals.
Formal submissions by members of the TCD Junior Sophister Irish Politics class at the formal sitting of the Joint Committee on the Constitution in the TCD Exam Hall- Declan Harmon, David Dehoe, Barra Roantree, Julianne Cox, Eliska Drapalova, Talya Houseman, Kimberley Moran, Ciara Begley, Barry Cahill, Daniel Philbin Bowman and Colm Quinn. This was the…
The need for political reform by Henry Grattan
TCD JS Irish Politics class & TCD Department of Political Science with The Joint Committee on the Constitution of the Houses of the Oireachtas Public consultation @ the Public Theatre (Exam Hall) Trinity College Dublin Tuesday, February 2nd @ 7pm. Ticket only event, places limited, please rsvp at tcdirishpols@gmail.com Directions. The Department of Political Science…
Posted by Mary C. Murphy & Katy Hayward The European Commission’s ‘EU 2020’ Strategy is a successor to the current Lisbon Strategy. The Commission Working Document sets out a plan for expanding on the successes of the ten year old Lisbon Agenda. To read the document or an executive summary, please go to: http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/secretariat_general/eu2020/consultation_en.htm. This…
Irish Politics Forum 