Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 1 June 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government
General Scheme of Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Presidential Voting) Bill 2014 [Private Members']: Discussion
9:30 am
Pat Casey (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
I thank Deputies Gerry Adams and Seán Crowe for their presentations. My party supports the general principle of the Bill. Most of the issues have been raised. Deputy Ruth Coppinger raised much of the detail that needs to be thrashed out and evaluated. Senator Billy Lawless stated clearly the options we would be trying to put to the people. That is work we need to do. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin said we needed to progress the Bill. We need to do so now rather than delay further. As a party, we will be supportive of working it through to try to have an end result.
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