Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The islanders being part of an election campaign to the very end of it is very important, particularly given that the media moratorium does not kick in until midday on the day prior to polling, whereas in the past it was a full day before polling. What is much more important to the islanders is the reality that many elections now take place on a Friday. They do not have to, but they do. That is the case with most general elections and particularly local elections. Given that, we would be considerably increasing the voter turnout on the islands because many people such as students, fishermen and so on miss out on voting. If the Deputy checks voter turnouts in the past, he will find that the voter turnout on the islands tends to be a little bit lower than on the mainland for that obvious reason. Anybody who travels by boat to an island on a Friday evening knows the number of islanders who go home every weekend, as in the case of people who return home anywhere else in the country. If one gets a weekend bus to the country, one will see people travelling home from this city who are registered to vote in their home area, for example, a student who is in college in Dublin who wants to vote in their home constituency and who does not want to register to vote in Dublin. In the case of many islanders, they are working within the constituency but they have to go to the mainland during the week. That answers the Deputy's first question. His second question was-----