Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
Link to this: Individually | In context

Question 150: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to give prisoners in gaols here a postal ballot; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5257/06]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
Link to this: Individually | In context

A person in legal custody may be registered as an elector and, under section 11(5) of the Electoral Act 1992, such persons are deemed to be ordinarily resident in the place where they would have been residing but for their detention. Following a judgment of the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights in a UK case in October 2005, the Government has approved the drafting of a Bill to provide a mechanism to allow prisoners to vote by post; work on this is under way at present.