Seanad ban would be Dáil calling kettle black

Dáil Éireann is as much a retirement home for politicians as is the Seanad.

We have too many wallpaper politicians in the Dáil; they are there for too long. Cork North Fine Gael TD, Liam Burke was asked not to run after the 2002 election, as he had been there for 30 years.

Familiar surnames such as Burton, Bruton, Gilmore, Rabbitte, Shatter, Howlin have for years been ‘holding the fort’ and watching it rot around them.