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THE SEANAD’S standing orders should be amended to allow the removal of senators from Oireachtas committees, an Independent TD and an Independent Senator said separately yesterday.

Dublin North Central TD Finian McGrath and Senator Joe O’Toole were responding to an anomaly whereby a TD can be removed from an Oireachtas committee by the Dáil, but Seanad Eireann is powerless to do the same.