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Eligibility to vote in Seanad Elections

  • 28-11-2013 5:33pm
    #1
    Xenophile
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,073 ✭✭✭


    I suggest the following criteria.


    Everyone who applies to be included in the Seanad electorate be listed for all future elections if they meet the following criteria.

    Be a citizen of the State.

    Have a PPS number.

    Be able to supply a Tax Clearance Certificate if asked to do so.

    The Forum on Spirituality has been closed for years. Please bring it back, there are lots of Spiritual people in Ireland and elsewhere.



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  • #2
    Sir Humphrey Appleby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,465 ✭✭✭Sir Humphrey Appleby


    Xenophile wrote: »
    I suggest the following criteria.


    Everyone who applies to be included in the Seanad electorate be listed for all future elections if they meet the following criteria.

    Be a citizen of the State.

    Have a PPS number.

    Be able to supply a Tax Clearance Certificate if asked to do so.

    You are already required to be a citizen afaik.
    By being a citizen you would have a PPS number.
    It would be impracticable to require every member of the electorate to supply a tax clearance cert and also unconstitutional.


  • #3
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,158 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Bah Feckin Humbug! wrote: »
    You are already required to be a citizen afaik.
    By being a citizen you would have a PPS number.
    It would be impracticable to require every member of the electorate to supply a tax clearance cert and also unconstitutional.

    I think non citizens have seanad votes in the University constituencies.
    They definitely allow non resident graduates to vote.

    EDIT; I'm wrong about the citizenship.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #4
    Sir Humphrey Appleby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,465 ✭✭✭Sir Humphrey Appleby


    mango salsa wrote: »
    I think non citizens have seanad votes in the University constituencies.
    They definitely allow non resident graduates to vote

    No, I know that when filling in the UD (Trinity) form you are required to be an Irish Citizen to be included on the register of Seanad electors.


  • #5
    Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo


    I think the right to vote in Seanad elections should be reserved for citizens of this Republic in the age range 3 -12, let's just see what happens okay, it literally can't be worse than voting Bertie and co in time and time again.


  • #6
    Cian92
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 827 ✭✭✭Cian92


    Bah Feckin Humbug! wrote: »
    You are already required to be a citizen afaik.
    By being a citizen you would have a PPS number.
    It would be impracticable to require every member of the electorate to supply a tax clearance cert and also unconstitutional.

    Not every citizen has a PPSN, many older women in particular who were homemakers would never have had a reason to apply for a PPSN.


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  • #7
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,592 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Cian92 wrote: »
    Not every citizen has a PPSN, many older women in particular who were homemakers would never have had a reason to apply for a PPSN.

    I thought everyone was given one regardless.


  • #8
    Sir Humphrey Appleby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,465 ✭✭✭Sir Humphrey Appleby


    Cian92 wrote: »
    Not every citizen has a PPSN, many older women in particular who were homemakers would never have had a reason to apply for a PPSN.
    They would if they needed to avail of state services.


  • #9
    Xenophile
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,073 ✭✭✭Xenophile


    Xenophile wrote: »

    Be able to supply a Tax Clearance Certificate if asked to do so.
    Bah Feckin Humbug! wrote: »
    It would be impracticable to require every member of the electorate to supply a tax clearance cert and also unconstitutional.

    How would it be unconstitutional, what article would it offend?

    Note in respect of Tax Clearance Cert, I stated in bold and underlined if

    The Forum on Spirituality has been closed for years. Please bring it back, there are lots of Spiritual people in Ireland and elsewhere.



  • #10
    Cian92
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 827 ✭✭✭Cian92


    kneemos wrote: »
    I thought everyone was given one regardless.

    Nope, I have come across the situation a few times before whereby a widow has to apply for one in her old age as her Husband passed away.


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