How will the Electoral Commission reshape Irish elections?
Inside Politics with Hugh Linehan
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The Constitutional Requirement for TDs in Parliament
There's no perfect answer to how many TDs you should have per head of population. Most European countries, the point at which their parliaments are fixed, are kind of a function of what it was set at when they were established. The number of MPs in the House of Commons hasn't increased exponentially to the same extent of the population of the United Kingdom? No, we say there's usually what we call a curvy linear relationship. It's between the number of TDs and the size of parliament.
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