Constitutional Change: Executive President

[Odyessus]

Well yes and no...

What I mean is that you could have say a TD elected for Longford North West and another elected from Munster East.

Maybe leaving the TDs alone and reforming the Seanad might be a better idea?

One way or other the present system is defunct and badly overdue an overhaul.

I find it very difficult to understand your point. We already elect deputies from different regional constituencies. Are you trying to say we should have single seat constituencies?

[Defeated Romanticist]

Why don't we just abolish the elected part of our state and replace it with a polling company which tells the civil service what to do. Scientific democracy.

[eurosceptic]

We urgently need an active president as we have a senate that doesnt do anything and a weak parliament that cannot effectively hold the government to account. Only the requirement for referendums on constitutional change acts as a brake on the government.

[blinding]

Our system would never(probably) produce a Barack Obama though still not tried and tested but in some ways a major step forward(in one step)for America even if only symbolically.

Would our system produce a George W.
I would like to think not but it is a matter for opinion.