Dr. Jane Suiter:

I think the Chairman needs to talk to the Data Protection Commissioner who, I think, will appear before the committee. In an ideal world, to ensure there were not geographic vagaries of that nature, part of the oversight function of the electoral commission would be to allow a centralised digital or online registration function. It would also seem sensible that one would not have to then build different systems in every local electoral area. There is a possibility a centralised system could even be used for the preregistration of the younger people we were talking about.

That is a personal view. I do not know if Dr. Reidy agrees.