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

Some use it to go to work, although not many do so every day. Some use it to do so on a Monday morning. It would not be a huge issue to get the ballot boxes to the mainland but the requirement for them to be at the count centre by 9 a.m. is unnecessarily restrictive because there is no way that all boxes will be opened at 9 a.m. Boxes only start being opened at 9 a.m. It would be easy enough to see that four boxes are missing, which is all that is involved in Galway. In Mayo there are three boxes which contain the votes from Clare Island, Inishturk and Inishbiggle. There is a finite number of boxes. There are seven in Cork and four in Donegal. It would be easy for the ceann comhairimh to remember that there are four boxes missing when the votes begin to be counted. It should suffice for those boxes to arrive by 11 a.m. or 12 noon because not all the boxes would have been opened by that time.