Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party)
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252. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to reform the information candidates are required to display on their election posters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27285/24]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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Section 140 of the Electoral Act 1992 provides that every notice, bill, poster or similar document having reference to an election or referendum, or distributed for the purpose of furthering the candidature of a candidate at an election, or a particular result at a referendum, shall bear upon its face the name and address of the printer and of the publisher.

The Programme for Government – Our Shared Future – envisages a role for the independent, statutory electoral commission, An Coimisiún Toghcháin, to examine and make recommendations on the issue of the use of posters at electoral events. In support of this commitment I wrote to An Coimisiún in July 2023. I outlined a number of issues that An Coimisiún might include in its initial research programme, including this Programme for Government commitment. An Coimisiún’s draft research programme, published on 10 November 2023, included a proposal to examine the use of posters. I will review this policy area once An Coimisiún has considered and made recommendations on the issue.