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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.

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

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Senator Burke spoke about the proposals that can be implemented and the proposals that are achievable. This might be the crux of the issue here. When we look at amendment No. 3, it refers to the different State bodies and organisations, etc., that we look to to provide Irish Sign Language supports.This is a rights-based issue. Either people have the right to have Irish Sign Language...

Seanad: Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (21 Jun 2017)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (21 Jun 2017)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Speak for yourself.

Seanad: Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (21 Jun 2017)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Tá mé ag iarraidh cur leis an méid ata ráite ag mo chomhghleacaithe ó Shinn Féin. I welcome the Minister of State to the House. He was a great colleague when he was a Member of the Seanad, during which time he was not backwards at coming forwards when it came to having a go at the banks. He always said it as he saw it and I understand why he would be...

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: Táim anseo chun mo thacaíocht a léiriú don Bhille seo inniu. Sílim go bhfuil sé fíor-thábhachtach. I am attending today to support the legislation. I have been the Sinn Féin spokesperson on the diaspora for some years and it is a very interesting role. I concur with most of what has been said and I do not propose to repeat the points made by...

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 thank the witnesses for coming in. This is a very emotive issue for many of those whom we heard at the Global Irish Civic Forum. I commend the Department on holding that forum. It was absolutely fantastic. The level of passion from our diaspora for moving this forward as quickly as possible was very evident. I also thank the witnesses for the work that has been done on the options...

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 opposed to an online voting system, Ms Quinn is just referring to the voter registration.

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 might tease that out. There will be an election in 2018, so those who are eligible to vote now will be eligible to vote in it even if, for example, I went to live in New York. If a Government decision was taken on the options paper to the effect that people who held an Irish passport would be eligible to vote, the general consensus is that only those who are interested in voting will...

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 would be the complications? I just want to tease this out.

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: We are teasing it out ourselves and are having ongoing discussions based on the options paper. We are considering the question of the qualification for citizenship, for example, via passport. A part of our difficulty is that the register sits with the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, which means that embassies and consulates could not be used in the...

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: Would they be personnel issues? If there was a large volume, would there not be enough people to handle it or is it a system issue?

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: To clarify, Ms Quinn mentioned that an overhaul of the electoral register system is needed.

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.