Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 10 November 2015
Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government
Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Committee Stage
5:00 pm
Ann Phelan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Labour)
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I have laid out for the Deputy the reasoning for not accepting this amendment. There is a risk. We have spoken to the returning officers and they want to retain that flexibility. I will undertake to speak to them again. At present the Government is opposing this amendment.