Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 2:

In page 6, after line 44, to insert the following:

"Amendment of Electoral Act 1992, Referendum Act 1994 and Presidential Elections Act 1993 in order to change island voting and to provide for related matters

4.(1) Section 85 of Part 15 of the Electoral Act 1992 is hereby repealed.(2) Section 42 of the Presidential Elections Act 1993 is hereby amended by the substitution of "section 86" for sections 85 and 86".

(3) Section 30 of the Referendum Act 1994 is hereby amended by the substitution of "section 86" for "sections 85 and 86".

(4) (a) The Minister may make regulations for the general purpose of this section and may, by regulation, provide for any matter referred to in this Act or to be prescribed.

(b) Every regulation under this section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made and, if a resolution

annulling the regulation is passed by either such House within the next 21 days on which that House has sat after the regulation is laid before it,the regulation shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under the regulation.

(c) Regulations under this section may contain such incidental, supplementary and consequential provisions as appear to the Minister to be

necessary or expedient for the purposes of the regulations.".

Molaim an leasú seo. Bhí plé fada againn ar an gceist seo sa choiste an lá faoi dheireadh. Níl na hargóintí athruithe ó shin. Tá sé éagórach nach mbíonn an vótáil ar na hoileáin ar an lá céanna leis an mórthír. Níl aon mhíniú tugtha ag aon duine cén fáth gur féidir toghchán i ndiaidh thoghcháin a dhéanamh thíos i gCorcaigh ach nach féidir é a dhéanamh i nGaillimh, Maigh Eo nó Tír Chonaill. Níl na hoileánaigh sásta faoi seo. Tá siad ag iarraidh go mbeidh na cearta céanna acu siúd agus iad ag vótáil agus atá ag daoine ar an mórthír. Mar sin, tá mé ag brú an leasú seo agus ag siúl, fiú ag an nóiméad deiridh seo, go mbeidh dea-scéal ag an Aire tráthnóna dom agus go ndéarfaidh sí go bhfuil i gceist glacadh leis an leasú seo. Seo leasú atá thar a bheith réasúnach agus atá bunaithe ar an saol mar atá sé faoi láthair agus ní ar an saol mar a bhí sé fadó.

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