Be wary of totalitarianism

The word on the street is the Seanad costs the Exchequer €20 million a year.

Even so, that figure is only a drop in the ocean of our international debt. Our debts will last for centuries.

Take a stark warning from history. The German Reichstag was burned down on the night of Feb 27, 1933. It was a pivotal event in the entrenchment of Nazi power. Irishmen and Irishwomen should think twice before they scrap the Seanad. That could sow the seeds of totalitarianism in Ireland.