Electoral Commission Establishment

Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 31 May 2018

Thursday, 31 May 2018

Ceisteanna (249)

Darragh O'Brien

Ceist:

249. Deputy Darragh O'Brien asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government when he plans to publish an electoral commission Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24147/18]

Freagraí scríofa

Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government

The 2016 report of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht on the establishment of an electoral commission is informing the implementation of the commitment in A Programme for a Partnership Government on establishing an electoral commission and the preparation of an Electoral Commission Bill to give effect to that.  Work is ongoing in my Department in preparing, in the first instance, a Regulatory Impact Analysis for the Bill, which is expected to be completed in the Autumn.