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The Citizens' Assembly will start discussing abortion today. Here's what's on the agenda
The current regime will be laid out but not critiqued.
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The current regime will be laid out but not critiqued.
Like many, events of last week and last weekend have shaken my certainty in Irish democracy. The wicked go unpunished and the good go unrewarded.
Jan Van De Ven is running as a candidate in the Ireland South constituency, and if elected would introduce a system of eDemocracy.
This is the result of a system where proposals which receive 100,000 signatures can be voted on by the public.
The political party say establishing a Court of Appeal will have ‘unintended’ consequences to the justice system.
“Citizens’ initiative” is a mechanism to control the political process between elections – and Ireland sorely needs it, writes Donal Ó Brolcháin.
A system of direct democracy would give people a more transparent form of government, writes Raymond Whitehead.
The financial crisis was sparked by a broken system. If we’re going to fix this we can’t leave it up to politicians, write Bronagh Geraghty and John Hughes.