I propose with your permission, a Cheann Comhairle, to take Questions Nos. 15 and 17 together. As the reply contains a tabular statement, I also propose, with your permission to circulate it with the Official Report.
Following is the reply:—
Payments to persons for acting as deputy returning officers are made by the returning officer from amounts paid to him by the Minister for Finance in accordance with a scale of maximum charges laid down, in the case of a general election, by the Returning Officers' (Borough and County Constituencies) Charges Order, 1937, as amended in 1947, 1948 and 1951, and in the case of the Presidential Election and Referendum of June, 1959, by the Referendum and Presidential Elections (Local Returning Officers' Charges and Accounts) Regulations, 1959. I have no information as to the amounts actually paid by returning officers to individual deputy returning officers within the prescribed maxima.
The following table sets out the other information sought by the Deputy in so far as it is available.
PERSONS Approved as Deputy Returning Officers at General Election of March, 1957, and Presidential Election and Referendum of June, 1959.
I. GENERAL ELECTION
Constituency
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Deputy Returning Officer
|
Normal Post
|
Total Annual Remuneration
|
March 1957
|
June 1959
|
Cork, North
|
Hugh A. Ludlow (B) Solicitor.
|
Not in public service
|
Not available
|
Cork, South
|
Redmond O'Regan (B) Solicitor.
|
Not in public service
|
Not available
|
Cork, West
|
*Thomas Healy (B) Solicitor.
|
Not in public service
|
Not available
|
Donegal, East
|
Sean D. Mac Lochlainn (A)
|
Donegal County Manager.
|
£2,060
|
Dublin, North (Central).
|
*John Eyre (B) Solicitor.
|
Asst. Law Agent, Dublin Corporation.
|
£1,432
|
£1,552
|
Dublin, North (East).
|
W.G. Fallon, B.L. (B)
|
Not in public service
|
Not available
|
Dublin, South (Central).
|
*D.J. Bergin (B) Solicitor.
|
Not in public service
|
Not available
|
Dublin, South (East).
|
Edward Fahy, B.L. (B)
|
Not in public service
|
Not available
|
Dublin, South (West).
|
Peter D. Maguire, B.L. (B)
|
Not in public service
|
Not available
|
Dun Laoghaire and Rathdown.
|
Noel Peart, S.C. (B)
|
Not in public service
|
Not available
|
Galway, North
|
Richard Fahy (A)
|
Clerical Officer
|
£562
|
£652
|
Galway, South
|
Eamonn Ó Dubhthaigh (C)
|
Chief Clerk, Class III
|
£788
|
£908
|
Galway, West
|
*Eamonn Ó Dubhthaigh (C)
|
|
|
|
Kerry, South
|
Patrick Raymond (B)
|
Senior Clerk, Class III
|
£815
|
£884
|
Limerick, West
|
Patrick J. Champion (B)
|
Chief Clerk, Class III
|
£753
|
£875
|
Mayo, North
|
John Bolger (A)
|
Chief Clerk, Class III
|
£732
|
£852
|
Tipperary, North
|
Thomas Brophy (A)
|
Acting County Secretary, Tipperary (N.R.) County Council.
|
£1,240
|
£1,288
|
II. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AND REFERENDUM OF JUNE, 1959
The deputy returning officers were the same with the following exceptions:
Constituency
|
Deputy Returning Officer
|
Normal Post
|
Total Annual Remuneration
|
Cork, East
|
L.M. Collins, Solicitor
|
Not in public service
|
Not available
|
Donegal, East
|
Desmond G. Williams
|
Donegal County Manager.
|
£1,940
|
Dublin, North (West).
|
Anthony Murray, A.C.A.
|
Not in public service
|
Not available
|
Dublin, South (Central).
|
Vincent Walsh, Solicitor
|
Not in public service
|
Not available
|
* General Election only. At the Presidential Election and Referendum Mr. Eyre acted in Dublin South (West) and Mr. Bergin in Dublin South (East).
(A) Deputy returning officer approved to receive nominations, open ballot boxes and count the votes.
(B) Deputy returning officer approved to open ballot boxes and count the votes only.
(C) Eamonn Ó Dubhthaigh approved as deputy returning officer to receive nominations only for the constituency of West Galway and to open the ballot boxes and to count the votes only in the constituency of South Galway.
At the Presidential Election and Referendum all deputy returning officers were approved to open ballot boxes and count the votes.
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