Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 8 June 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Bernard Joyce:
I will address the issue of voting. People who are moving may find difficulties with registration because of travel. The process is set up in a way that does not provide in a culturally appropriate way for the Traveller community, which is an indigenous group. There will have to be some elements of change in order that this is done in a way that facilitates the cultural needs after the Traveller ethnicity recognition in 2017. That must be considered and part of that may be today's discussion. There must also be further consultation and dialogue as we need to look at this in a way to create dialogue.
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