# abolition - Wednesday 1 June, 2016
A statement from the European Commission would appear to tie the government’s hands on scrapping water charges.
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# abolition - Tuesday 29 March, 2016
Irish Water says that under EU law Ireland must charge for water services.
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# abolition - Wednesday 29 April, 2015
… according to Brendan Howlin.
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# abolition - Monday 23 December, 2013
Under the new legislation, the functions of the quango will be transferred to Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland.
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# abolition - Saturday 5 October, 2013
The government must now decide what it plans to do with the retained upper house.
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Enda Kenny’s decision to decline to participate in television debates during the Seanad referendum campaign has been criticised today.
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Too close to call is the word of the day.
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# abolition - Friday 4 October, 2013
The campaigning is over. Now it’s over to you.
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# abolition - Tuesday 1 October, 2013
The party is not for turning…
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# abolition - Monday 30 September, 2013
Fine Gael’s argument that abolishing the Seanad will save €20 million was again under scrutiny today with the Minister giving a commitment to the Irish public.
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With the referendum looming, we answer the questions you’re probably asking.
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# abolition - Tuesday 24 September, 2013
The Fianna Fáil leader has hit out at the Taoiseach over claims from Fine Gael that abolishing the Seanad will save €20 million.
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# abolition - Monday 23 September, 2013
Róisín Shortall, Patrick Nulty and Tommy Broughan want people to vote Yes in just over a week’s time.
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# abolition - Sunday 22 September, 2013
Hildegarde Naughton said she sees the upper house as a “gateway” and said she wants “to get a feel for the workings of the Dáil and Senate”.
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# abolition - Friday 20 September, 2013
The €20 million saving has been a central plank of Fine Gael’s pro-abolition campaign – but now the Oireachtas says there’s no way to know how much will be saved if the Seanad goes.
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# abolition - Thursday 19 September, 2013
The Labour and Fine Gael ministers had different views on how much would be saved by abolishing the upper house.
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# abolition - Tuesday 17 September, 2013
The Houses of the Oireachtas has said it is not possible to estimate the amount of net actual savings that would arise from Seanad abolition despite Fine Gael’s repeated claim that it would be €20 million per year.
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With the referendum looming, we answer the questions you’re probably asking.
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# abolition - Monday 16 September, 2013
Data from the Red C poll published in the Sunday Business Post at the weekend shows that there is strong support among Fine Gael voters for abolition.
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# abolition - Monday 9 September, 2013
Richard Bruton took a stroll in the Dublin sun earlier to meet potential voters in the Seanad referendum. He even bumped into a fellow Cabinet colleague…
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Two Labour senators will canvass with the former Fianna Fáil minister in the midlands this week.
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# abolition - Monday 2 September, 2013
Now you can check through Facebook.
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# abolition - Monday 19 August, 2013
The party has said the proposal to abolish the Seanad came from a New Politics document published in March 2010, six months after Enda Kenny first called for the chamber to be scrapped.
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# abolition - Friday 16 August, 2013
The party has confirmed its intention to support government policy and a Yes vote on 4 October but its chief whip says that there is a 50-50 split in the parliamentary party over the future of the Seanad.
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# abolition - Wednesday 14 August, 2013
The former Tánaiste Michael McDowell claims that that the Seanad costs each Irish citizen the price of a two litre bottle of milk every year.
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# abolition - Saturday 10 August, 2013
Plus: How many hoax calls are made to the HSE ambulance service every day?
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# abolition - Saturday 27 July, 2013
The junior minister got into a heated argument with senator John Crown during a recent debate on the Seanad abolition.
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# abolition - Sunday 21 July, 2013
Members met and voted at this weekend’s Garret Fitzgerald Summer School.
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# abolition - Tuesday 16 July, 2013
Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform said he expects a “robust debate” on the whether or not to introduce a unicameral system of government.
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The Fine Gael TD was referring to Norris saying she was “talking through her fanny” while in the Seanad yesterday.
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Senator David Norris has been criticised for saying a Fine Gael TD was “talking through her fanny” – but does he need to say sorry?
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# abolition - Monday 15 July, 2013
Adolf Hitler also got a mention in the upper house this afternoon.
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Minister Bruton and TD Regina Doherty will lead the campaign to abolish the Seanad, it was announced today.
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# abolition - Wednesday 26 June, 2013
The Taoiseach told senators today that abolishing the upper house is the biggest package of reform since the passing of the Constitution in 1937.
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# abolition - Monday 10 June, 2013
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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# abolition - Saturday 8 June, 2013
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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# abolition - Friday 7 June, 2013
The Referendum Commission will be chaired by Justice Elizabeth Dunne, whenever the Oireachtas passes the referendum bill.
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# abolition - 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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