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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: General Scheme of Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Presidential Voting) Bill 2014 [Private Members']: Discussion (1 Jun 2017)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: She suggested that might be best done as an online registration system. Would that be devolved from county councils or local authorities?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: General Scheme of Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Presidential Voting) Bill 2014 [Private Members']: Discussion (1 Jun 2017)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: What are the options as regards registration in the North?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: General Scheme of Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Presidential Voting) Bill 2014 [Private Members']: Discussion (1 Jun 2017)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: What options are we considering for the North, for example?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: General Scheme of Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Presidential Voting) Bill 2014 [Private Members']: Discussion (1 Jun 2017)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: As the proposals in the Bill are not available, I am not 100% au faitwith the reasoning around some of the specific wording. I imagine some of the wording refers to including the unionist community. Its members may not want to take up citizenship, for example, but they may want to exercise the right to vote. If one wanted to become a citizen, one would be eligible but not have to take that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: General Scheme of Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Presidential Voting) Bill 2014 [Private Members']: Discussion (1 Jun 2017)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Timing is an issue. I refer to people on the islands. Even if there is a difference of only one day between when they vote and the national vote takes place, they sometimes feel they may lose something in terms of what happens at the end of an election campaign. Did the witnesses include time considerations in a system where votes would come in from all over the world?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: General Scheme of Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Presidential Voting) Bill 2014 [Private Members']: Discussion (1 Jun 2017)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: On the proposed legislation, are we, to put it in layman's terms, trying too hard to put those concerns into legal terms? Is it the case that, legally, we do not need to say as much as that in order to actually vindicate those rights for people? Am I correct in stating that it is not necessary to specifically mention residency or all citizens of Ireland in that scenario in order to ensure...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: General Scheme of Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Presidential Voting) Bill 2014 [Private Members']: Discussion (1 Jun 2017)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I will convey this to my colleagues so that they are aware.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jun 2017)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Go raibh míle maith agat, a Chathaoirligh. Tá ceist fíor-tromchúiseach tagtha chun cinn le seachtain anuas maidir lenár gcuid imircigh thall sna Stáit Aontaithe agus an dream atá le díbirt amach as na Stáit Aontaithe. I am raising the issue of the undocumented Irish, particularly the case of a Donegal man who has been living in Boston without...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jun 2017)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: All at a political stroke.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jun 2017)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: In what way?

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jun 2017)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: The Leader needs to clarify that.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jun 2017)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: The Leader should withdraw that statement.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jun 2017)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: On a point of order, a statement was made about my character and I would like it to be withdrawn.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jun 2017)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I am asking the Leader to withdraw the statement.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jun 2017)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: The Leader said I am well used to stroke politics. I have never been involved in stroke politics in my life.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jun 2017)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: That is very different to stroke politics.

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2017)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Tá áthas orm a bheith in ann labhairt ag an bpointe seo ar an díospóireacht seo. I am very happy to speak in the debate on this Stage and I welcome the guests in the Public Gallery. It is not the first time they have sat in that Gallery and it is not the first time they have heard the same excuses being used again and again about Irish Sign Language. It is simply not...

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2017)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Absolutely, we are looking at amendments Nos. 1 to 3 , inclusive, to the section, and amendment No. 14. We have debated this issue on quite a number of occasions over the last six years. I was a Member of the previous Seanad in which Bills had been brought forward on Irish Sign Language so this is a little like Groundhog Day for the people in the Gallery who are listening to the debate...

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2017)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Possibly, but I am concerned that-----

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2017)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I am just putting together the points I would like to see clarified.