In any Seanad reform, the primacy of the Dáil would have to be at the forefront of considerations
The Seanad is not intended to be a second Dáil, but as a revising chamber, similar to other countries. In the Netherlands and Belgium, as other cases in point, the Senate in those countries is also intertwined heavily with the results of local or regional elections, as in Ireland. In any Seanad reform options, the primacy of the Dáil at all times would have to be at the forefront of those considerations.
In a historical context it can be noted that the first Seanad was abolished in effect because it was considered to have frustrated the early Dáil to too much of an extent. If the Seanad as currently formulated were to obstruct, purely through politicised opposition, legislation supported by the Dáil to an undue degree, it would not be tolerated generally speaking for very long by Irish society given its indirect delegate voting system composition.
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