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Democracy Matters (Ireland)
Democracy Matters is an Irish campaign group set up to campaign for the retention of Seanad Éireann, the upper house of the Oireachtas or parliament. It was set up to oppose the 2013 bill to abolish the Seanad introduced by the Fine Gael–Labour government. After the defeat of the bill at referendum, Democracy Matters has remained in existence to argue for reform of the Seanad and the relationship between it and Dáil Éireann, the more powerful lower house of the Oireachtas.
==Anti-abolition campaign==
(詳細はKatherine Zappone and Feargal Quinn, former minister and senator Michael McDowell, former senator Joe O'Toole, and Fianna Fáil activist Noel Whelan.〔(Campaign to Save the Seanad Launched ) www.journal.ie, May 2013.〕
The Seanad Reform Group later renamed itself Democracy Matters. Zappone introduced a private member's bill to replace the restricted-franchise Seanad election with general-franchise elections.〔(Democracy Matters: Seanad Reform ) Irish Times, May 27, 2013.〕 The group's campaign slogan was "Open it Don't Close it".〔(Democracy Matters Flyer - Open it Dont Close it ) Irish Election Literature Blog〕 It presented the abolition bill as a power-grab by a government which had already kept the Dáil on a tight leash.
Other supporting the campaign group included historian Diarmaid Ferriter, independent TD Finian McGrath, former minister and senator Mary O'Rourke, and former minister Eamon Ryan. On 20 September 2013 the group launched a poster campaign for a No-vote in the referendum.〔(Grabby Power - Democracy Matters Poster Campaign Launch ) www.broadsheet.ie〕 Labour backbenchers were free to oppose the party in the referendum campaign, and senator Ivana Bacik and TDs Joanna Tuffy and Michael McCarthy joined Democracy Matters canvassing.〔(Government Division Deepens On Seanad Vote – Labour TD To Join Democracy Matters Vote No Canvass ) On the Spot PR, September 13, 2013.〕
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