Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I understand the Government has announced emergency legislation which is due to be enacted before the Easter break. Therefore, it is in the next two weeks that it will bring forward an electoral (amendment) Bill to scrap the provisions whereby, if one is bankrupt, one cannot stand for this House, the Seanad or the European Parliament. I welcome that. However, I have a concern about rushed legislation. I understand this is because of a High Court challenge. This is the second electoral (amendment) Bill that has a resulted from a High Court challenge, the other being my own challenge in the by-election case. I put the Taoiseach on notice that there will be further challenges unless we deal with this. For example, local elections taking place on islands which are accessible all year round------

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