Barrett, SylvesterThursday, 19 June 1980 |
Dáil Eireann Debate
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Electoral (Amendment) Bill, 1980: Committee Stage.
What was the Deputy's query, please?
Yes.
Chapter 4 of the report covers this point. The Constitution provides that the total number of Members of Dáil Éireann shall not be fixed at less than one Member for each 30,000 of the population or n...
Yes. 30,000 per Deputy, maximum.
This is from the commission's report.
One of the terms of reference given to the commission by the Government was that the commission should work within the numbers 164 to 168. On Second Stage, most members who referred to this question ...
We have moved.
The Deputy has a good point. It is a possibility, as a census will take place in 1981 and we will have to have the returns from the census.
Without any loss of time it is possible that during the life of this Dáil the census would be completed and there could be another revision, but that would have to be decided then.
There is a lot of conflict with regard to the views expressed about this matter, but if that came to pass, it would have to be decided at that time.
It is possible.
I suggest the Deputy put down a question to the Taoiseach.
Every Member would be interested.
This discussion is hypothetical. It is possible that the census returns will be completed in time to revise the constituencies, but that will have to be considered at that time. It is also possible ...
The commission reported and the report was accepted. It was normal to bring in a Bill as soon as it was ready and this I have done. Question put and agreed to. SECTION 3.
Rural district councils which were constituted under the Local Government Act of 1898 were abolished under section 3 of the Local Government Act, 1925 with effect from 1 October, 1925, hence the refe...
Three years ago.
That is correct.
In that case special provision would be made in the form of a short Bill.
The constituency mentioned here has been represented by the present Ceann Comhairle since he became a Member of the House.
This was the pattern followed by all his predecessors, and provision for the Ceann Comhairle has been made in each Bill. In the event of the Ceann Comhairle retiring and a new Ceann Comhairle being e...
Under the 1963 Act we are obliged to specify in the Bill where the Ceann Comhairle will be automatically returned. Under the Constitution he is returned unopposed.
I appreciate that. In the 1963 Act——
It is provided in section 14 (1) (b) of the 1963 Electoral Act that where a revision of constituencies takes effect on the dissolution of the Dáil, if the outgoing Ceann Comhairle has not announced to...
According to Article 16.2 of the Constitution it is stated:
The county secretary is the person who would rearrange the electoral lists. They are in a special form. Part of the lists would go to another constituency and they would have to be apportioned to the...
Yes, he would have to do it on the dual basis.
It would require amendment of the existing legislation, not of this Bill.
The necessity for a supplementary list would not arise if the people responsible for compiling the register checked it properly. This Bill is not concerned with that. We would have to amend the 196...
——or worse. People are paid to compile the register but they do not check it properly.
I agree with the Deputy. When one meets those who have been left off that is the way one would feel.
I appreciate the Deputy's point but these persons remain as postal voters until the next register is compiled.
In the normal course, the Army would readdress letters to the addresses the men would have given and these men could still vote.
Yes, it deals with polling districts. Question put and agreed to. SECTION 8. Question proposed: “That section 8 stand part of the Bill.”
Yes.
Incidentally, the Deputy forgot to name the Fingal Harriers.
There is obviously a cohesion in the naming scheme selected and it would be wrong to detract from that cohesion by re-naming one or more of the constituencies. The Government accepted the recommendat...
Did they not kill Brian Boru?
Before the battle of Clontarf, King Brian—that is Brain Boru—is said to have burned Fingal and the district of Howth, and some years later during a further excursion into Fingal that country is said t...
Written Answers. - Unfinished Housing Estates.
The circular letter which issued from my Department on 19 November, 1979 requested, inter alia, information on the extent of intractible problems in relation to unfinished housing estates in each loca...
Written Answers. - Urbanisation of Agricultural Land.
Information on the lines referred to by the Deputy is not available in my Department. Responsibility for the operation of planning control in their areas is a matter for each planning authority concer...
Written Answers. - Access to Public Buildings.
As the reply is in the form of a tabular statement. I propose, with the permission of the Ceann Comhairle, to have it circulated with the Official Report. Following is the statement: The following pu...
Written Answers. - County Cork Sewerage Scheme.
Preliminary proposals for Leap sewerage scheme are under consideration in my Department. The local authority's proposals for this scheme must be considered in the context of the amount of capital ava...
Written Answers. - Payment of Grant.
The grant in this case will be paid shortly.
Written Answers. - County Wexford Housing Allocation.
Following is the information: Capital allocation for local authority house construction.
I am aware that Wexford Corporation in common with other housing authorities have a considerable number of approved housing applicants on their waiting list. The corporation have already been allocat...
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