Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)
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337. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to confirm that the Local and European Elections will indeed take place on the 7 June 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4107/24]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The polls for European Parliament and Local elections in Ireland are typically taken on the same day.

Under section 26 of the Local Government Act 2000, an election of members of every local authority shall be held in the year 2004 and every fifth year thereafter. The poll at local elections shall be held in the month of May or June, as may be fixed by Ministerial Order.

The procedure for fixing the election period in respect of elections to the European Parliament is set out in the European Union's Electoral Act of 1976 (i.e. the Act concerning the election of the representatives of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage, annexed to Decision 76/787/ECSE, EEC, Euratom). In accordance with that Act, the 2024 European Parliament elections will be held during the period of 6-9 June 2024.

I intend making an announcement in relation to the date of the local and European Parliament elections in due course.