Seanad Bill 2020: Second Stage
Seanad Éireann — 2020-11-18
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David P.B. Norris (IND), University of Dublin

With regard to the Bill, the idea of one constituency - I will come back to this - is absolutely unmanageable and would lead to a kind of gerrymandering because young people would be gerrymandered out of the process.
There are references to various institutions in the Bill but I think it should now be the technological university that is mentioned.
There is no question that the register is defective but there is no solution. Young people get jobs, move around, go to England or America, come back, go off on holidays, do this, that and the other, and are virtually untraceable. It is a miracle that so many people are caught in the register.

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Sitting date: 2020-11-18