Colonising the museum - Share chamber

IT seems bizarre and depressingly symbolic that a wing of our National Museum might be closed and its education programmes curtailed while the section of Leinster House usually used by the Seanad is renovated.

This suggests an imagined hierarchy that is at least questionable if not arrogant. The proposal is also indicative of unimaginative problem solving.

The Seanad, beloved as it may be by its members, is hardly one of the high-octane forces driving this society towards a better, sun-soaked future.