Seanad debates

Thursday, 7 July 2022

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages

 

9:30 am

Photo of Alice-Mary HigginsAlice-Mary Higgins (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 29:

In page 48, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following: “(2) The Commission shall include, as a programme under subsection (1), the subject of participation in elections, with particular regard to participation by—
(a) women,

(b) persons with a disability,

(c) persons who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or intersex,

(d) persons from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds,

(e) Travellers and persons from other ethnic minority backgrounds,

(f) persons under the age of 25, and

(g) persons serving custodial sentences.”.

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