Ms Fiona Quinn:

In practical terms, the options paper sets some of this out. In many cases, people who are outside the island of Ireland could probably attach themselves to a constituency in the State. They may have lived here or perhaps their grandparents did, so we could set up a system whereby local authorities would be responsible for the registration of those individuals. Generally, there would not be that sort of automatic association for people in Northern Ireland. It is important we treat all citizens the same, which is at the crux of what we are trying to suggest. There needs to be a system that is user-friendly and allows people to do what they wish, that is, register and, if necessary, vote. We need to be able to stand over the integrity and security of the process in order that when we have a President elected, we are able to say without doubt that the systems and processes we have in place are such that we can stand over their verifiability.