Ms Liz Carolan:

I thank the Deputy. I have not had the brain power or the childcare in the Covid era to write some of these things down. It feels a little bit like I am coming before the committee with more problems than solutions but there are organisations, such as the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, IDEA and the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, IFES, that do a significant amount of thinking about structuring electoral commissions.

I think we are the envy of the world to be starting from scratch in the digital era. We are not trying to retrofit or deal with digital issues in the context of an existing body. We are going to build this from scratch.