Paul Connaughton (Galway East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

One of the issues that arose in the marriage equality referendum about which I received complaints related to the many young people who got involved who were voting for the first time. Some of them found out too late in the day that they were not even on the register. Did the Department receive many complaints in this regard? These were people in their 20s and early 30s who had a vote at one stage but were taken off the register and found out far too late to get onto the supplementary register. There seemed to be a great deal of confusion over that, particularly where people were taken off the list who believed they had a vote previously.