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

It was more a factor of the population of an island and whether there was a possibility that anybody would vote late in the day rather than the day on which the poll was taken because, as I said, there was always very short day polling on the two islands in Donegal that I mentioned and the local population were not against it. Half the island population lives on the three Aran Islands and they are in the Atlantic, unlike Arranmore, Bere Island and so on that are very near the coast. Not all Cork islands have short day polling. Bere Island and so on have full day polling.