Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 November 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Electoral (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Discussion (Resumed)

11:00 am

Ms Ríona Ní Fhlanghaile:

It has been proposed that there should be the kind of races that one witnesses at elections in the United Kingdom, for example, where people run in with ballot boxes. I do not understand that. It would be better to have a standardised requirement for the arrival of ballot boxes and to possibly amend the Act to allow for a potential delay in the delivery of some boxes and allow preliminary proceedings to begin because that work takes a couple of hours.