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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Steven Matthews: Amendments Nos. 2, 33, 34, 62 to 64, inclusive, 71 to 73, inclusive, 81 and 104 to 109, inclusive, are related and will be discussed together.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Steven Matthews: Amendment No. 3 has been ruled out of order.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Steven Matthews: Amendments Nos. 6 to 16, inclusive, are related and will be taken together. The amendments seem to be quite technical in nature.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Steven Matthews: Amendments Nos. 25, 28 and 29 are related and will be discussed together.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Steven Matthews: Deputy Ó Snodaigh has spoken to amendments Nos. 28 and 29 there as well.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Steven Matthews: Amendment No. 26 has been ruled out of order.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Steven Matthews: Amendments Nos. 27, 31, 40, 42, 45 and 50 are related and may be discussed together.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Steven Matthews: Amendments Nos. 32 and 70 are related and may be discussed together.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Steven Matthews: Members need to stick to discussing amendments Nos. 32 and 70. The Deputy has gone beyond that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Steven Matthews: The Deputy can speak to it when we reach amendment No. 74.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Steven Matthews: Does the Minister of State wish to respond? I ask him to confine his remarks to amendments Nos. 32 and 70.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Steven Matthews: I would rather move on. The Minister of State can address those points when we reach amendment No. 74.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Steven Matthews: Amendments Nos. 1 and 4 are related and may be discussed together.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Steven Matthews: Amendments Nos. 5, 21, 22 and 24 are related and will be discussed together.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Steven Matthews: To clarify, the Deputy proposes to withdraw amendments Nos. 22 and 24 but will be pressing amendment No. 21 when the time comes. Is that correct?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Steven Matthews: Amendment No. 19 has been ruled out of order.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Steven Matthews: Amendments Nos. 46 to 48, inclusive, and amendment No. 69 are related and may be discussed together.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Steven Matthews: I am just looking around and I am noting all of the elected members in the room actually fall in the lower half of the alphabet.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Steven Matthews: I will go in the order that we will take these amendments. Amendments Nos. 46 and 47 are Deputy O'Callaghan's. We will then move to Deputy Nash for amendment No. 48, which will be followed by Deputy Ó Broin with amendment No. 69.