asked the Minister for Local Government if Party affiliations of candidates will be printed on ballot papers in the forthcoming Presidential election.
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The answer is no.
Why? I understood that the Electoral Act, which was enacted for all elections, provided that the political affiliation of the candidate concerned was to be printed on the ballot paper.
Do you want this?
Deputies
Yes.
We want to see the law being carried out.
We do not know what political affiliation he has now.
The announcement that the President was going forward again was made at the Fianna Fáil Árd Fheis. You are not going to disown him now?
(Interruptions.)
There is no question of disowning him.