The minister’s logic at parliament seemed to imply that, if FG Mr Kenny can speak enough sentences out loud to get Senate reform to be finally picked-up by the limited-attn of the republic press & media scene (and do so very successfully)….
…then, the minister is well within his rights to do away entirely with the National University of Ireland (in the real world).
http://www.vimeo.com/9048286
Your suggestion to place the Senate elections alongside ‘both’ the Local and European elections is not the best you make. There’s already too much in the pot with two elections taking place simultaneously : irl-journos don’t know which way is up, nor how the hell they will manage to cover “all” local candidates, while the destiny leaders manage to swing the European elections on issues that are wholly obscured by matters of local politics and local-political issues.
I suppose that is the reason why simultaneous elections are prohibited in various countries in Europe. In our case, it’s one elections per year – on a rota (offers political groups time to breath) thus: States’ General-Assembley (Second Chamber), Provincial States (First Chamber), EuroParl , and Municipal.
It’s a 4 year calander known as the political calendar.
Moreover, no one, individual Furher is granted power to speak their desiréd-day for the Peoples’ elections to take place. But a commission.
And certainly not one comprising of humans involved in showcase party-politics. That is absurd, and it is but one of the elements of this document, forged in the Cold Winter of the western-command in 1937-Europe.
Nice place … abominable legacy!