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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1923-03-22/6/
22 Mar 1923 -
(1) One register of electors shall be prepared in every year and, except in University constituencies..., the first register to be prepared under this Act shall be a register of electors who were qualified...on the 15th day of October, 1922, and the register to be prepared in every subsequent year shall be...a register of electors who were qualified on the previous 15th day of November.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1961-05-25/2/
25 May 1961 -
reduced to these ridiculous long quotations from the past which we had from Senator O'Quigley about Electoral...Bills introduced in 1922 and 1932 and 1942, under all of which, no matter who introduced them or what
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1934-05-04/5/
4 May 1934 -
The Constitution was passed in 1922....If I remember rightly there was an Electoral Bill passed in 1923— I do not remember the month—but, let...Within the ten years an Electoral Bill was introduced, namely, in 1923....was an election held in February, 1932, that is to say rather less than nine years after the previous Electoral...The first Electoral Bill was passed about 1923, the Government of the time having been in office for
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1932-06-10/3/
10 Jun 1932 -
General Mulcahy This question has been raised by the Deputies opposite on a Bill in which eleven persons...have the opportunity taken by the Ministers and Deputies on the other side to take advantage of an electoral...We have that majority made use of to wipe out their sins of 1922, 1923 and 1924.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1923-11-14/25/
14 Nov 1923 -
Act, and that Parliament, by resolution of the 12th September, 1922, directed the preparation of a register...The 15th October, 1922, was substituted for the 15th July (the date in the Act of 1918), and the other...Six and a half months are allowed by the Electoral Act....The present Bill, therefore, proposes to adapt the dates and machinery of the Electoral Act to the preparation...The Bill does not deal with franchise in any way.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1968-07-18/3/
18 Jul 1968 -
It has been used to good effect since 1922. It has been used in every election....The fact that it takes a long time to count the votes indicates that the electorate must be exercising...If we refer again to this Report on the Constitution we see, in Annex 13, how the people voted since 1922...The percentage of spoiled votes in 1922 was 3.48....The percentage of the total electorate who voted was 62.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1968-07-25/4/
25 Jul 1968 -
came into office in 1932, and got an overall majority in 1933, they had the power then to amend the 1922...amended other sections, but they did not amend the provisions of Articles 26 nor did they then amend the Electoral...representation which was to be used in implementation of the procisions of Article 26 of the Constitution of 1922
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1959-02-12/2/
12 Feb 1959 -
O'Donovan The Constitution of the Irish Free State, Saorstát Éireann Act, 1922:— "The members shall...That was implemented in the Electoral Act, 1923.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1959-02-05/2/
5 Feb 1959 -
After all, the system has been in operation since 1922....But, if this has to be submitted to the electors, it is going to go to them, to the electorate, without...It is not going to them as a Bill that has been passed with the help of my vote. Why do I do that?...I am going to vote against the Bill. So I shall resist by my vote this retrograde measure....If this Bill goes through, that power of discriminatory control will pass into the smooth hands of the
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1994-03-30/22/
30 Mar 1994 -
procedure whereby non-contentious proposals could be put to the people at the request of a number of electors...An initiative along these lines was contained in the 1922 Constitution but it was never used and it was
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1927-07-26/19/
26 Jul 1927 -
After 1922 —a very critical year—Deputy Johnson came into this House and made a confession as to what...the electorate had thought of his actions during that year.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1959-02-05/2/
5 Feb 1959 -
By 1922, Mussolini was able to form a cabinet, based on a coalition of four Parties....He introduced a new electoral law" —this is where Mussolini came to power— "under which the country...In fact, when Mussolini came into power after the election in 1922, he had been voted into power by nearly
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1928-07-10/5/
10 Jul 1928 -
The Seanad did remarkably good work from 1922 to 1925, and from 1925 up to date....put it to any Senator who looks at the nominations from the Dáil to the Seanad which took place in 1922...I would like to know whether it is contended that, in the case of the 23 per cent. of the electors who...exercised the franchise at the last Seanad election, this Bill proposes to disfranchise the electorate..., there is no doubt but that our judgment must be in favour of the present Bill.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1968-03-06/37/
6 Mar 1968 -
Corish They realise, and the electorate certainly realise, that we are now moving into an era when social...putting to the people economic issues and not trying to get votes on the basis of where one was in 1922
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1955-05-26/3/
26 May 1955 -
that the members of the Galway County Council in general are people who presented themselves to the electorate...in the various electoral areas for quite a number of years and had had expressed in the ballot boxes...would take a long time to catch up with the victimisations which were carried out in the period from 1922
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1928-06-26/26/
26 Jun 1928 -
The PRESIDENT This Article has been in the Constitution since December, 1922, and only on one occasion...Executive Council which was not followed by a petition, having the names of only five per cent. of the electors
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1983-12-07/8/
7 Dec 1983 -
The Bill proposes that a British citizen shall be entitled to be registered as a Dáil elector in a constituency...Having been registered as a Dáil elector, he or she will be entitled under the Electoral Act, 1963 to...considerable advantage of removing all possibility of doubt from such a vital area as the validity of our electoral...a right similar to that which Irish citizens have enjoyed in Britain for a long time, indeed since 1922...relation to collective citation and construction in order to take account of the likelihood that the Electoral
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1959-05-13/28/
13 May 1959 -
A Bill was introduced here last October or November....under 59 years of age would not know what this Bill was about or why a referendum is being held were...The people had a Constitution in 1922....In my opinion the big thing in the Constitution of 1922 and in the Constitution of 1937 is proportional...Each of those Parties asked the electorate to elect them to office.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1923-02-08/5/
8 Feb 1923 -
first register to be prepared under the Act for each University constituency shall be a register of electors...who were qualified on the 15th day of October, 1922, and shall come into force on the 1st day of June...Each subsequent register shall be a register of electors who were qualified on the 15th day of November
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1961-05-25/2/
25 May 1961 -
I was pointing out that the provisions of the 1922 Constitution being exactly similar to the provisions...of the 1937 Constitution, the Oireachtas were obliged in the 1935 Electoral Act to do precisely what...is being done in this Bill.
