Written answers

Tuesday, 29 January 2019

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Election Monitoring Missions

Photo of Seán HaugheySeán Haughey (Dublin Bay North, Fianna Fail)
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120. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if applicants for the 2018 Irish election observer roster are obliged to be resident on the island of Ireland; the number of non-residents who applied for the position; the number of non-residents short-listed to join the roster; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3815/19]

Photo of Ciarán CannonCiarán Cannon (Galway East, Fine Gael)
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Ireland's election observer roster does not require volunteers to be habitually residented in Ireland. It does require all volunteers on the election observation roster to be citizens of Ireland, in order that Ireland complies with a European Union requirement that EU election observers are citizens of an EU Member State, or a citizen of Switzerland or Norway. Accordingly no questions regarding habitual residency were asked of potential volunteers and no data on habitual residency was generated for statisical or other purposes.

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