Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed)
Seanad Éireann — 2024-02-14
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John Cummins (FG), Labour Panel

The d'Hondt system has worked in some cases, but there is an irony in it being proposed here, given that in 2019 in Waterford, the d'Hondt system having been in operation for five years previously, when the opportunity arose for Sinn Féin, Independents, the Labour Party and everyone else to exclude Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil from an arrangement, they took it with open arms, without allowing any opportunity for the d'Hondt system to be introduced. It may suit at some times and not at others. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.

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