Martin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It seems to be moving there. That is agreed. Petition No. 46 of 2022 relates to the names of registered political parties and comes from Mr. Jeremiah Murphy. This petition relates to a statement that all political parties in Ireland should “state their names in English on all their literature”. The secretariat corresponded with Mr, Peter Finnegan, Clerk of the Dáil and Secretary General, on 11 August 2022 on behalf of the petitioner and received a reply on 24 November 2022, which explained why parties are not required to do this, unless they so choose. Following on from the information provided from the Clerk of the Dáil and Secretary General, it is the view of the secretariat that this petition is inadmissible for the following reason.

Under Dáil Standing Order 127, admissibility of petitions, a petition is admissible unless it requests the Dáil to do anything other than the Dáil has power to do. The committee recommends that the petition is inadmissible under Dáil Standing Order 127 and that the correspondence from the Clerk of the Dáil and Secretary General be forwarded to the petitioner for information as to why this petition is deemed inadmissible. Do Members have any views on that or is it agreed? Agreed.

That concludes our consideration of public petitions this afternoon. I invite members of the public to submit petitions via our online portal, which is available at petitions.oireachtas.ie. A petition may be addressed to the Houses of the Oireachtas on a matter of general public concern or interest or an issue of public policy.

We are on to any other business. I thank Ms Maggie Semple and the staff for all they do. We say it every time we have a meeting, but the amount of paperwork and stuff they go through on our behalf makes our work very easy, so I thank Ms Semple, Ms Susan Moran and Ms Barbara Hughes very much.