Annual Delegate Conference

The 2010 Annual Delegate Conference (ADC) will be held on Thursday and Friday 15th and 16th April 2010 in the Radisson SAS Hotel, Galway.

The Annual Delegate Conference, which is the supreme decision making body in the Union, is composed of delegates from the Branches along with the Executive Committee and the Standing Orders Committee.

At the ADC delegates review the Annual Report of the Executive Committee and the Union's Statement of Accounts and decide Union policy for the coming year. In addition, the delegates elect the Executive Committee. This Committee acts as the Management Board of the Union and ensures that the policies which have been adopted, are given effect.

There are 14 members of the Executive Committee plus the President and Vice-President elected at the ADC and these 16 are then entitled to co-opt a further five members on to the Committee. This is normally done at the first meeting of the new Committee (Branches/Groups who have had members already elected to the Executive Committee may not have a further member co-opted in this way). The idea of the co-option procedure is to allow a fair spread of representation among Branches/Groups.

The ADC also elects a Standing Orders Committee whose function is to organise the arrangement of business at the ADC of the following year or at any Special Delegate Conferences of the whole Union that take place during the year. Also elected at ADC are the Union's Scrutineers whose job is to count the votes cast at the ADC and to count the votes cast in any general ballots of the membership that occur during the year.

Branch delegates to the Conference are generally appointed at the Annual General Meetings of each Branch so members wishing to be appointed as delegates to the Conference should put their names forward at their Branch Annual General Meetings.

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