Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 28 November 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Local and European Elections 2024 and Subsequent General Election: Discussion

Photo of Steven MatthewsSteven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I will make a submission, but the listing of addresses of candidates on ballot papers is something I would like to see dealt with. I do not know whether we will be able to do it in time for the local and European elections, but it is a vexed question. There could at least be guidance provided to candidates applying on what they can put down.

A little further on, because it probably will not be for the forthcoming election, is the issue of six-seater constituencies.

I would love to know if the members of the Electoral Commission sat around and said to each other that if only six-seater constituencies had been permissible, it would have been possible to get the boundary changes done much faster or in a less disruptive kind of way.

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