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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: Absolutely, two electoral cycles, depending on the election.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: In response to Deputy O'Callaghan's question, one of the problems of not having the kind of system Sinn Féin has developed in recent years is that Mr. McShea and Mr. Carroll, as he will note from their responses, cannot confirm whether all their individual candidates or elected representatives are fully compliant because they have no ability to do that. They can advise and provide...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Senator for his question and apologies that my presence offends him. All I can say is I guarantee I will answer all his questions directly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: "Yes" is the answer.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: I have worked full time for the party for almost 22 years with a three-year gap when I worked for the not-for-profit sector in a variety of different jobs when I was not an elected representative. I am happy to list those for the Senator if he wishes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: Ken O'Connell is the current acting general secretary of the party.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: It has not. No.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: Absolutely. It is an election canvas tool.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: Not to the very best of my knowledge.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: No constituency information, where somebody comes into the constituency office for the purposes of constituency work, is entered into Abú. Where one has a constituency office, such as mine, that uses paper files, we keep a paper file for constituency purposes. If an Oireachtas Member uses the Oireachtas constituency system, he or she will do that, but there is no crossover between...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: It is not possible.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: It is not possible, so no it has not been done.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: Absolutely and-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: I am more than happy to answer the questions, if the Senator would give me just half a second to respond to each one. They are very important questions and I want to give the Senator detailed answers. The training manual was a manual about the use of social media, not about Abú. It is clear, in hindsight, that the person who wrote those particular sentences was not accustomed with the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: Absolutely not and the safeguard for this is the Commissioner for Data Protection, who is reviewing all of these matters. We are giving her full access to all of this information. She will make her determination on all of this in time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: The straight answer is that I do not know-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: Can I give the Senator the answer that I was going to give, if he could just give me a second? For example, one of the reasons I cannot answer that is that the party does not centrally control individual constituencies. Candidates in their elections do. It would be normal, for example, for one, two, or three people to have access to that system, including the candidate during the election...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: Can I also just say, so that we are very clear, there was no request from this committee for accountable officers to attend today. There was an invitation to general secretaries, or their nominees. If the Senator had wanted the accountable officer-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: It was in 2019.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: I am more than happy to forward to the committee later today the actual cost. I just do not have that figure to hand. I apologise to the Senator. If he would just give me a second to answer, it would be no more than the standard cost, for example, for setting up and hosting a website, because that is its function. It was funded by the party in the South. It is hosted by the party. The...