Seanad by-election legitimacy
Senator David Norris calls the Seanad by-election a token contest with too few voters, prompting opposing exchanges with Senator Marie Moloney and procedural intervention from the Chair.
On the forthcoming Seanad by-election, the selection of the candidate Máiría Cahill is an internal matter for the Labour Party. It can do whatever it likes. She is a fine person, but the election is a complete farce, with only 100 voters. It is not even an election because Fine Gael has withdrawn from it. It is an own goal for the Labour Party. It is a nomination, not an election.
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The last by-election did not represent an own goal.
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It was an own goal. The Senator is damn right. It was a goal scored against Fine Gael’s goalkeeper.
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The Senator cannot have it both ways.
