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McCARTHY REPORT chairman Colm McCarthy has urged politicians to consider a single-chamber Oireachtas to reduce costs.

He said he was very conscious that there was currently “an anti-politics mood”, and a proposal to abolish the Dáil would probably get through in a referendum. “You have to stand back . . . We have raised the question of the Seanad.”