FG move for debate on special needs assistants defeated [IrishTimes]
- Published: 27 January 2010
SEANAD REPORT: THE DYSFUNCTIONAL system of governance in the North of Ireland was never going to work, a Government-supporting member maintained.
Fiona O’Malley said she did not wish to strike a discordant note but felt there was a need to give thought to what was happening. Every time there was a crisis the British and Irish governments attempted to sort matters out. How were locally elected representatives ever going to live up to their responsibilities if that continued to happen? “What I think it exposes [is] the inherent problem in the system of governance in the North of Ireland . . . as everyone knows the Westminster elections are coming up and that is what is foremost for politicians of that area . . . but this question of the dual mandate and the triple mandate, indeed, just shows how the North of Ireland is over governed.”
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