Election Management System

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 20 November 2012

Tuesday, 20 November 2012

Questions (431)

Pearse Doherty

Question:

431. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 691 of 6 November 2012, if he will provide the total of the persons employed in the following roles in the children's referendum who were immediately previously unemployed or on the live register; special presiding officers, presiding officers, supervisory presiding officers and area inspectors, poll clerks, count supervisors, count calculators and counters. [51143/12]

Written answers

Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government

My Department wrote to Returning Officers on 19 November 2012 asking that they outline the extent to which unemployed persons were engaged in the conduct of the poll and the counting of the votes at the referendum held on 10 November 2012. When this information has been received from the Returning Officers, it will then be forwarded to the Deputy as soon as possible.