Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 20 May 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Brian Sheehan:
I thank Deputy O'Callaghan for his question. Our candidates and campaign teams do not collect individual voter intention information from canvasses. Inasmuch as they collect any information from a canvass it is aggregated information, for example, the voting preferences expressed in an aggregate sense or the issues that were raised. I am not sure voters would like the idea that political parties are storing their voter intentions expressed in a conversation at the door. We do not retain that and any aggregated information is not retained after the elections.
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