Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 2 February 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
General Scheme of Electoral Reform Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed)
Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source
On communication expertise, this committee asked whether the commission should have any role in regulating postering during elections and referendums, as in limiting the numbers of posters. When the posters go up, it is something that sparks a lot of conversation. There does not seem to be much conversation when the posters come down. Would that be too prescriptive? We spoke about the editorial rights of a television station to agree who should be on, but do the witnesses have any view on whether there should be any limitation on posters to even the playing field across an election campaign?
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