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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Nov 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: I move amendment No. 65: In page 46, lines 20 to 22, to delete all words from and including "subparagraph" in line 20 down to and including "2023" in line 22 and substitute "section 102(1)".

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Nov 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: I move amendment No. 67: In page 52, lines 16 and 17, to delete "Minister for Finance, with the approval of the".

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Nov 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: I move amendment No. 68 In page 52, line 37, to delete "Minister for Finance" and substitute "Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform".

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Nov 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: I move amendment No. 69: In page 53, lines 1 and 2, to delete "Minister for Finance" and substitute "Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform".

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Nov 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: I move amendment No. 70: In page 55, line 32, to delete "Minister for Finance" and substitute "Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform".

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Nov 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: I move amendment No. 71: In page 56, between lines 12 and 13, to insert the following: "(2) A person who— (a) is required to make a statement under section 23AA and who fails to do so or fails to comply with that section as to the form and contents of the statement, (b) fails to remit to the Commission in accordance with section 23AA such a donation or, in the case of a donation...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Nov 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: I move amendment No. 72: In page 56, line 13, to delete "(2) A person" and substitute "(3) A person".

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Nov 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: I move amendment No. 73: In page 56, line 16, to delete "(3) A mayoral" and substitute "(4) A mayoral".

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Nov 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: I move amendment No. 74: In page 57, after line 41, to insert the following: "Amendment of European Parliament Elections Act 1997 38. The European Parliament Elections Act 1997 is amended, in subsection (5) of section 11, by— (a) the substitution, in paragraph (c), of "member of the Seanad, or" for "member of the Seanad,", and (b) the insertion of the following paragraph after...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Nov 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: I thank the Deputy for the amendment. I accept that it is well-intentioned and it is an interesting point. The programme for Government, Our Shared Future, contains a commitment to examine the use of posters during referendums and elections. The commitment in the programme envisages a role for the electoral commission to examine and make recommendations on the issue of the use of posters...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Nov 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: I wish to conclude. I presume what Deputy McAuliffe said was a generalisation. I have found officials in the Custom House to be very normal and down to earth, not bureaucrats.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Nov 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: Committee members will appreciate that my comments will be somewhat tempered, being a Minister of State at the Department, but the greatest critics of their posters are, as they all well know, their supporters: "Where are your posters? They are not up. Everyone else has them up." It is a wider question and I take Deputy Quinlivan's point about campaigning. It gives reassurance in a big...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Nov 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: I move amendment No. 76: In page 58, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following: “Amendment of Data Protection Act 2018 41.The Data Protection Act 2018 is amended— (a) in section 2, by the insertion of the following definition: “ ‘Mayor of Limerick’ has the meaning assigned to it by section 9 of the Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Act...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Nov 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: I move amendment No. 77: In page 58, line 36, to delete “definition” and substitute “definitions”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Nov 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: I move amendment No. 78: In page 59, line 1, to delete “2023;”,” and substitute “2023;”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Nov 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: I move amendment No. 79: In page 59, between lines 1 and 2, to insert the following: “ ‘plebiscite’ means a plebiscite held under Part 6 of the Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Act 2023;”,”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Nov 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: I move amendment No. 80: In page 59, line 32, to delete “following paragraph” and substitute “following paragraphs”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Nov 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: I move amendment No. 81: In page 59, to delete line 33 and substitute the following: “ “(g) a Limerick mayoral election; (h) a plebiscite.”,”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Nov 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: I propose to address amendments No. 83, 84, and 88 as they have been grouped together for discussion. I presume I am not-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Nov 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: They relate to Part 6, which deals with the holding of plebiscites to consider proposals by other local authorities to provide for a directly elected mayor of their administrative area. Amendments No. 83 and 84 in the name of Deputy Cian O'Callaghan relate to the process to initiate a plebiscite proposal. Section 43 provides that a plebiscite of the electors of an administrative area may be...