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Sat 07 Jul 2010Long-fingering politicians take refuge in committees
A long summer rest is as good as any change for change-averse politicians, writes NOEL WHELAN
THIS WEEK they did it again: our politicians kicked the hot potato of political reform into the long grass. For almost a year the All Party Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution took expert evidence and deliberated on whether we need to change our electoral system. On Thursday it published a detailed report, which while making welcome suggestions about fringe aspects of our electoral system, sent the central issue it was asked to examine off to a “citizens’ assembly”.
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