Andrew Doyle (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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182. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a person is permitted under current electoral law to run for a position on a County or City Council in two or more local electoral areas of the same local authority during the 2014 Local Elections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30871/13]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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A person can be nominated to stand for election in more than one local electoral area. Article 14(3) of the Local Elections Regulations 1995 provides that a separate nomination paper is required for each local electoral area for which a candidate is nominated at a local election.

Article 124 of the 1995 Regulations , as amended, provides that where a person is elected as a member of the same local authority for two or more local electoral areas, the person shall , within th e th ree day period after the return is made of person s elected to be members of the local authority , declare in writing which one of those areas the person chooses to represent. If the declaration is not delivered within this period , the person shall be deemed to have chosen to represent the local electoral area in respect of which they received the greatest number of first preference votes.