# political-reform - Monday 18 May, 2015
The presidential age referendum is a watered-down version of attempts at real political reform.
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# political-reform - Saturday 31 January, 2015
Congratulations, you’ve been elected! Luckily you can avoid living up to any promises you’ve made – just follow this guide.
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# political-reform - Saturday 3 January, 2015
The response to the recommendations of the Constitutional Convention on political reform reveals the truth about the Government’s attitude to democracy.
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# political-reform - Saturday 6 December, 2014
Eoghan Muphy talked parliamentary reform in a wide-ranging interview with TheJournal.ie this week.
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# political-reform - Friday 18 April, 2014
TDs have complained that there is a false impression being created that politicians are not at work because they are absent from the Dáil chamber.
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# political-reform - Saturday 8 March, 2014
One proposal would see TDs serve a maximum of two consecutive terms in the Dáil.
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# political-reform - Friday 7 March, 2014
Over the past three years the Government has been completely focused on job creation, but there must also be a programme of real political reform, writes Charlie Flanagan TD.
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# political-reform - Thursday 30 January, 2014
# political-reform - Wednesday 29 January, 2014
The party has outlined a set of radical political reforms which will have little chance of being implemented by the current government.
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# political-reform - Monday 27 January, 2014
No real savings can now be made for 12 years in Irish Water, while we create a duplicate of the existing arrangements and also set up an expensive new central agency to boot, writes Eamon Ryan.
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# political-reform - Wednesday 15 January, 2014
Rather than vote Yes or No, a deputy will be able to officially abstain from a vote on a piece of legislation or a motion under changes likely to be implemented later this year.
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It’s no surprise that the opposition doesn’t think the government has done enough Dáil reform, but TDs think that even some changes that have been introduced aren’t working.
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# political-reform - Tuesday 14 January, 2014
A letter from the chairpersons of the Oireachtas committees to the Ceann Comhairle has raised “serious concerns” about the workloads faced in 2014 as a result of the plans to scrutinise legislation before it comes before the Dáil.
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# political-reform - Sunday 22 December, 2013
SIPO is also in the middle of a disagreement with Minister Hogan about proposed accounting reforms for political parties.
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# political-reform - Saturday 7 December, 2013
Changes to the question time have been criticised but the government chief whip has defended the new format following near-farcical scenes in the chamber on Thursday.
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# political-reform - Friday 22 November, 2013
The Transport Minister was frank about the government’s control of the legislature in the Dáil this afternoon.
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# political-reform - Tuesday 5 November, 2013
Under changes taking effect this week Leaders’ Questions move to midday on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
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# political-reform - Wednesday 23 October, 2013
“Well, I come in peace, not in war,” Kenny told members in the upper house this afternoon.
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A new bill published yesterday will ensure that unspent allowances from TDs and Senators are repaid for the first time.
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# political-reform - Tuesday 22 October, 2013
The government has published the Oireachtas Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices Amendment Bill 2013 today which will deal with the controversial party leaders’ allowance.
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# political-reform - Thursday 10 October, 2013
For the first time in the 93-year history of the Oireachtas, citizens now have a direct route to influence the parliamentary agenda through the Petitions Committee, writes its chairman Pádraig Mac Lochlainn.
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# political-reform - Wednesday 9 October, 2013
Fine Gael backbenchers quizzed the Taoiseach on political reform in the Dáil last night.
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# political-reform - Sunday 6 October, 2013
One of their members Denis Naughten TD also says that “there might have been a different result on Saturday had the Dáil had been reformed first.”
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# political-reform - Friday 13 September, 2013
Committees would be radically overhauled and given the task of scrutinising legislation to an even greater degree under the government’s reform plans.
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# political-reform - Thursday 12 September, 2013
Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin and the Green Party have rounded on Enda Kenny’s proposals to lengthen Dáil sittings and beef up the pre-legislative processes.
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The Dáil will start earlier on a Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays than it currently does and Friday sittings will be every two weeks instead of every month as is the case at present under government proposals outlined today.
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Government Chief Whip Paul Kehoe has hinted at possible changes to the strict party whip system as the coalition will today launch its plans for Dáil reform.
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# political-reform - Monday 26 August, 2013
The government chief whip has told TheJournal.ie that the coalition has no plans to amend Dáil standing orders as some Fine Gael TDs and senators outside of the Fine Gael parliamentary party are seeking to do.
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# political-reform - 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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# political-reform - Sunday 4 August, 2013
The opposition party released a policy discussion document this week which proposes a raft of reforms to the way the Irish parliament does business.
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# political-reform - Tuesday 30 July, 2013
Micheál Martin has proposed a series of radical reforms if Fianna Fáil was in government at the MacGill Summer School in the Glenties tonight.
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# political-reform - 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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# political-reform - 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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# political-reform - Thursday 6 June, 2013
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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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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# political-reform - Wednesday 5 June, 2013
A referendum to overhaul the Oireachtas and abolish the Seanad is planned for early October.
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# political-reform - Sunday 19 May, 2013
The 100-member Constitutional Convention has voted to investigate “an entirely new electoral system” for picking TDs.
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# political-reform - Thursday 18 April, 2013
Goverment TDs should be allowed to vote against their party on certain matters under proposals by backbench TD Eoghan Murphy in an internal document circulated among Fine Gael members this week.
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# political-reform - Saturday 16 February, 2013
The Fianna Fáil leader said he had a “good chat” with his predecessor at a recent funeral but neither Cowen nor Bertie Ahern have any input to party policy.
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