Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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469. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the dates on which each of the returning officers assigned to the offshore islands first formally announced polling dates for their respective islands with respect to the General Election 2016, and the Local and European Elections 2014, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41360/16]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The information requested is not available in my Department. Electoral law provides that it is a matter for the returning officer in the relevant constituency to give public notice of his or her decision to take the poll on an island in advance of the polling day appointed by the Minister.