To ask the Minister for Local Government if he can state whether the Adult Suffrage proposal will be ready for inclusion in the Voters' Lists to be used in Municipal Elections in January, 1923, and if he will state what steps, if any, are being taken to prepare a new Voters' Register, or whether the Municipal Elections of January 1923, will be postponed.
CEISTEANNA—QUESTIONS. - ADULT SUFFRAGE—(MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS, 1923).
AILFRID O BROIN
Mr. BLYTHE
The instructions in reference to the preparation of a new Register of Electors will issue in time to admit of the commencement of the work after the 15th inst, the end of the qualifying period as fixed by the resolutions of 19th September last. The instructions are in proof and will be out in a day or two. It is not possible to compile and publish that register in such time as to be available for any elections which may be held in the month of January, 1923, and the question of the postponement of the Municipal Elections is under consideration. If it is decided that they must be postponed it must be necessary to come to this House for authority.