Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 18 June 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs
Democratic Legitimacy and Accountability in the European Union: Discussion
3:20 pm
Mr. Francis Jacobs:
Certainly that has helped in the past in terms of the turnout. I do not know what will happen in terms of the recommendations of the Constitutional Convention. One of the ideas considered was that the presidential elections in the future would be held on the same day but that was rejected by the Constitutional Convention.