Having a look over the Referendum commissions, material on Seanád reform. One explicit Constitutional power highlighted in the article below will be the scrapping of a provision whereby a Bill can be referred to the people for a referendum if a majority of Seanad members, and more than a third of Dáil members, ask the President not to do so. The grounds for the petition must be that it contains a proposal of such national importance that the decision to have such a law should be made by the people. The President can accept or reject the request. The guide states: “If this referendum is passed, the possibility of the reference to Bills to the people by the President will be removed from the Constitution." Although not much has ever gone down this route, its in the constitution as a safe guard should it be needed~Martin ”irishtimes/news/politics/scrapping-seanad-would-see-40-changes-to-constitution-1.1517355
Posted on: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 15:11:51 +0000
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