Jennifer Murnane O'Connor (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am leaving shortly and I will be quick. It was stated that significant work was advanced in the Department on modernisation projects. Can we be informed of what that was? Mr. Ryan spoke of his 19 year old son voting. The biggest issue is when a person cannot go into his or her local authority and hand in his or her form to be added to the electoral register. There is always a deadline a few months, perhaps two or three months, before general and local elections when a person has to go to the Garda station with identification to get the form signed. That is one of the main deterrents and it puts young people off going on the register. I refer to having to go into the local Garda station and finding the time to do that. We need to look at the time required to do all of that and the form itself. We need to examine the use of PPSNs. The only way forward is using PPSNs on forms that are handed in.