Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 22 June 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bill: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Petra Woods:

Head 80 is the oversight provisions. I am just checking, but I believe that at each place it says it shall publish a report, so it is a published report rather than a report to the Minister. It provides that the commission may on the basis of its work, the reports it receives from the local authorities and also on the basis of any research it commissions or carries out itself, make recommendations to registration authorities related to the management of registers. It can set standards for registration authorities and make recommendations to the Minister. Perhaps it is not clear, but that was intended to set out what could be included in the annual report that is published.