# seanad - Saturday 15 June, 2013
Support for scrapping the Seanad is highest among males, those over 50 and residents in Connacht and Ulster
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The restaurant and bar combined made total sales of over one million euro in 2012.
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Good morning! Here are nine things to know before you start your day…
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# seanad - Friday 14 June, 2013
Shane Ross has tabled an unusual motion – seeking a vote trying to delay Seanad abolition until reform is introduced first.
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# seanad - Thursday 13 June, 2013
The Red C poll for Paddy Power also shows a four-point boost for Fine Gael in the last few weeks.
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Áras an Úachtaráin says the President has signed the Criminal Justice Bill, which allows networks to be shut down in emergencies.
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The party revealed its latest Director of Elections this morning.
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# seanad - Wednesday 12 June, 2013
The pro-life senator has accused Enda Kenny of using spin tactics to deflect from his “deeply unpleasant” proposal to legislate for abortion under the terms of the X Case.
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The government’s move to abolish the Seanad is short-sighted, reactionary and populist – and the stringent whip system that our representatives in Dail Eireann are subjected to demonstrates this, writes Caroline Bergin-Cross.
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# seanad - Tuesday 11 June, 2013
The Government wants the new Criminal Justice Bill to be on the statute books before next week’s G8 summit.
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# seanad - Monday 10 June, 2013
“I don’t want to start a row with either,” the Junior Minister explained this morning when asked about the Seanad referendum.
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But the independent TD and several of his colleagues want the upper house reformed and hopes to get support from Labour and Fine Gael TDs this week.
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# seanad - Saturday 8 June, 2013
It’s the weekend, and here are nine things you should know.
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With a free vote, at least a dozen TDs and senators from the main opposition party are likely to oppose the Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill, according to a survey carried out by TheJournal.ie.
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The government has said that those who want the Seanad reformed “have the opportunity to vote no” in the October referendum.
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# seanad - Friday 7 June, 2013
The Europinions poll for TV3, with a margin of error of 3pc, cites the cost of the chamber as the main reason to close it.
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The Referendum Commission will be chaired by Justice Elizabeth Dunne, whenever the Oireachtas passes the referendum bill.
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The Taoiseach was speaking while on EU business in Latvia and Lithuania yesterday. He is in Finland today and London tomorrow.
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# seanad - Thursday 6 June, 2013
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
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The formal legislation to change the Constitution and delete the Seanad is out today. So what’s in it?
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Former Tánaiste Michael McDowell is arguing for the retention and the reform of the Seanad.
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Do you want the Seanad saved or abolished?
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Abolition of the upper house will be a decision for the Irish people, the Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney said this morning.
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Good morning! Here are nine things you want to know as you start your day.
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# seanad - Wednesday 5 June, 2013
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
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# seanad - Monday 27 May, 2013
Democracy Matters! is calling for reform of the Seanad, not abolition.
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# seanad - Tuesday 21 May, 2013
TheJournal.ie team brought you live updates from day three of the hearings, including testimony from legal experts.
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Day 2 of the Oireachtas hearings on abortion saw psychiatrists and medical professionals give their expert opinions on the new law.
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# seanad - Saturday 18 May, 2013
The members of the convention voted by 57 to 41 per cent not to write to the Taoiseach seeking an opportunity to discuss the abolition of the chamber.
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Heckling, James Reilly leaving early, and questions about term limits on abortion – the first day of the Oireachtas hearings on abortion legislation had a lot of drama. Here’s what happened.
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# seanad - Friday 17 May, 2013
While there are practical arguments for a bill that requires no constitutional change, it limits any reform across the whole legislative body, writes Eoin O’Malley.
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# seanad - Thursday 16 May, 2013
Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan is due before the Public Accounts Committee today.
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# seanad - Wednesday 15 May, 2013
Unlike the committee’s previous hearings, there will be few representatives from advocacy or religious groups giving evidence.
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# seanad - Sunday 12 May, 2013
Feargal Quinn and Katherine Zappone will call a vote this Wednesday on plans to overhaul how the chamber is elected.
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# seanad - Monday 6 May, 2013
We have a look at how the constitution may need rewriting if the second House of the Oireachtas is binned.
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# seanad - Wednesday 1 May, 2013
So – we now have a draft ‘heads of bill’. Here’s what happens as the Government tries to turn it into law.
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# seanad - Friday 26 April, 2013
The party is to debate motions which include reforming the way a party leader is elected and the circumstances under which it would go into coalition government.
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# seanad - Monday 22 April, 2013
The website, which allows the public to keep track of debates in the Oireachtas, was knocked offline by changes within Leinster House.
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# seanad - Sunday 31 March, 2013
The Seanad could be given the opportunity to seek the right to hold major public inquiries – if it is not abolished first.
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