Dr. Jane Suiter:

The Deputy comments were more statements than questions. One would want to be careful about taking people off the electoral register. I refer back to the previous point made about three times, which I had not heard about, and that was mentioned at the previous meeting with the Department. Again, this is an issue that must be checked with the Data Protection Commissioner. Almost everybody has some dealing with the State and, therefore, the Revenue Commissioners or the Department of Social Welfare or somebody has an address for people that is linked to their personal public service number, PPSN. If it is deemed acceptable for a PPSN to be used, then the default position could be to use whatever address is registered for a PPSN then it would be the address for voting and if one wanted to change that, then one would do so. So one could check one's address on the register to see if it is the current address-----