Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 16 June 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht

Electoral Commission in Ireland: Discussion

2:15 pm

Professor David Farrell:

I agree with that. One of the risks that the committee’s process runs is if one goes too much into the detail of how to do X and Y, then the big objective is missed. An electoral commission needs to be established and, when it is, it should be given the remit to explore issues such as this.