Madam, – It may come as a shock to Dr Nigel P Cooke (May 31st) that those six seats in the Seanad are elected by a small proportion of graduates in Ireland. I am a graduate of an Irish university and I have no vote in the Seanad.
Contrary to what Dr Cooke seems to (naively) believe, removing these positions that can only be voted for by the elite is the best way to enhance our constitutional right to representation, not to extinguish it. – Yours, etc,