Malcolm Noonan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I thank Senator Cummins for his positive comments. The general scheme does provide for data sharing for the purposes of obtaining and maintaining the electoral register. That would include sharing data between local authorities and enabling data to be matched against other public sector data, for example, the public services identity data held by the Department of Social Protection. I might ask Ms Woods to respond to the other points the Senator raised, if that is okay.