All processes need change

The end of the beginning.

That’s where we are now. If any senator, deputy or minister feels that we can move on from the referendum and return to an unchanged Leinster House, they are sadly mistaken.

Friday’s vote was more than a defeat of the crude abolition proposal. It was a strong signal that a broken politics, both in the Dáil and the Seanad, must be changed and not in some far away space after the next election. The change must start now.