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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. 58: In page 36, to delete lines 14 to 27.

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. 59: In page 36, line 28, to delete "(4) For" and substitute "(3) For".

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. 60: In page 37, line 36, to delete "(5) For" and substitute "(4) For".

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. 61: In page 38, line 3, to delete "(6) Where" and substitute "(5) Where".

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. 62: In page 38, lines 31 and 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. 63: In page 46, line 6, to delete "property or services" and substitute "property, goods or services".

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. 64: In page 46, to delete lines 10 to 14 and substitute the following: "the provision of the property, goods or services shall be deemed to bean election expense and the property, goods or services shall be deemed to have been provided at the commercial price and shall be recorded by the mayoral election agent in the statement required to be furnished to 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. 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...