Scrapping Seanad will not improve governance

HOW will the brave new world look? If the opinion polls are correct, the Seanad will be voted out of existence on Friday.

This isn’t a foregone conclusion. While all the polls show the yes side is in the majority, it is inevitable that turnout will be low. Such a scenario is more likely to favour the no side. Not to put too fine a point on it, but most of society appears not to really give a toss one way or the other about the fate of the upper house.

But if, as expected, the vote goes with the Government, what will the post-Seanad world look like? Will we be able to carry on at all?