Micheál Martin: ‘Tinkering around edges of reform’.

Seanad reform pledge an ‘act of window dressing’

The Government has been accused of wasting the opportunity to reform the Seanad in light of a rejection by voters of its plans to abolish the Upper House.

Professor Gary Murphy, chairman of the Democracy Matters group — which campaigned to keep the Seanad — criticised plans to reform it as a “supreme act of window dressing”.