Prolixity of laws or proximity to decision making?
Before a law is passed in Ireland it has to be unanimously approved by the Council of State and remains cocooned like a boast in an oyster until that juncture. If it is not so approved,the President is morally and legally obliged to refer it to the Supreme Court to test its legality. The same is the case with the European Union.
In Britain we have a Spanish 'camarilla' or a plant with roots (not the police 'plant' who comes to your home to infer that you are the police source,not him). In Britain,the Privy Council is consulted by the head of state but the sovereign power has no power to approve or disapprove enactments or controvert regulations which infringe long-standing legal rights granted by the Constitution,a system which is built on checks and balances on those in positions of power. That is the role of the House of Lords Judicial Committee which can only strike down a law where a substantive breach of rights or obligations or pre-existing laws relating to the Constitution has taken place.
