Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 4 March 2014
290. Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the total number of graduates registered, the number of new graduates registered; and the number of graduates removed, from the Seanad Éireann electoral registers for the National University of Ireland and University of Dublin that are due to come into effect on 1 June 2014. [10900/14]
View answerSection 8(1) of the Seanad Electoral (University Members) Act 1937, ‘the Act’, requires the governing body of every university which is a university constituency to cause a register to be kept in accordance with the Act of the persons who are for the time being entitled to be registered as electors. Section 9(1) of the Act provides that there shall be a registration officer for each of the university constituencies who shall be appointed and paid for by the governing body of the university forming the constituency. Section 9(3) of the Act provides that the annual revision of the register shall come into effect on 1 June of each year. Responsibility for the maintenance and publication of the register is assigned in law to the universities which form the universities constituencies for the election of members of Seanad Éireann. The information sought in the question is not available in my Department.
