Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Friday, 22 January 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Water Treatment (Abstractions) Bill 2020 and Electoral Reform Bill 2020: Discussion

Mr. Barry Ryan:

It may be that it is a little bit prescriptive. We have tried to be as specific as possible in terms of what we are calling the selected members of the commission. Initially, the four selected members would have specific skills and experience. I refer to a former elected Member of the Oireachtas or a local authority, somebody with experience in international electoral matters, somebody with experience of Irish electoral matters and then, in terms of general public administration, somebody with financial experience and so on. Within all of that it may be that we will be able to couple with that experience also or else, as the Chairman said, it will be still open to the commission to engage that expertise if it needs to do so.

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