Labour won 64 of the 120 seats in the country's unicameral parliament.

Madam, -The McCarthy report recommended that we consider a unicameral parliament, in other words the abolition of the Senate.

Two-thirds approval in the unicameral parliament would be needed to set the ball rolling on a constitutional change to allow for two-term presidencies.

By way of comparison New Zealand and Israel both have a unicameral parliament of 120 legislators with populations of 4 million and 7 million respectively.

It is true that these are of comparable population size, and have unicameral parliaments with 175-200 representatives, only slightly larger than the Dáil.