Editing President of Ireland (section)

===Suggestions for reform===
There have been many suggestions for reforming the office of president over the years. In 1996, the Constitutional Review Group recommended that the office of President should remain largely unchanged. However, it suggested that the Constitution should be amended to explicitly declare the president to be head of state (at present that term does not appear in the text), and that consideration be given to the introduction of a [[constructive vote of no confidence]] system in the Dáil, along the lines of that in Germany. If this system were introduced then the power of the president to refuse a Dáil dissolution would be largely redundant and could be taken away. The All-party Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution's 1998 Report made similar recommendations.

In an October 2009 poll, concerning support for various potential candidates in the [[2011 Irish presidential election|2011 presidential election]] conducted by the ''[[Sunday Independent (Ireland)|Sunday Independent]]'', a "significant number" of people were said to feel that the presidency is a waste of money and should be abolished.<ref name=SI_200091011>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/womans-place-is-still-in-the-aras-poll-26572771.html |title=Woman's place is still in the Aras – poll |last=Reilly |first=Jerome |date=11 October 2009 |work=[[Sunday Independent (Ireland)|Sunday Independent]] |access-date=31 March 2018 |archive-date=1 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180401081311/https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/womans-place-is-still-in-the-aras-poll-26572771.html |url-status=live }}</ref>