Only legitimate response is inclusive process of reform

Next week’s budget is quite rightly the focus of families throughout the country and my party will, in the next few days, set out its alternative for a fairer approach to recovery.

However, everyone should also take the time to acknowledge the lessons of the Seanad referendum.

This was intended as the Government’s final say on the matter of reforming our political institutions. They wanted to abolish the Seanad, leave everything else untouched, and claim to have delivered a ‘democratic revolution’.