Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 24 September 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Electoral Arrangements to Protect Democracy and Ballot Integrity: Discussion

3:00 pm

Photo of Steven MatthewsSteven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party)
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My last question is on posters. Posters are the part of the campaign nobody likes at all. They play a role because when the posters go up everybody knows there is an election on, so they are beneficial in some way. However, it is about the proliferation of them. There are candidates putting up 1,000 or 1,200 posters across a constituency. It is absolutely ridiculous. It should really be limited down. Is the commission doing research work on that?