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Wed 06 Jun 2010McDowell makes case for 'radical' Seanad reform
SEANAD ÉIREANN needs radical reform, former tánaiste and minister for justice Michael McDowell said last night, admitting he was “wrong” to call for its abolition in the past.
He said he had felt the Seanad “had ceased to serve the function for which it was originally established and had become what I referred to as ‘a cross between a political convalescent home and creche’.
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