Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 8 June 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. James Doorley:
That is a really good question. We do not have that data. The CSO conducted research in 2011 looking at the turnout among different age cohorts and found that among young people, it was at 63% or 64%. We would argue that the electoral commission should be given the mandate and resources to conduct the kind of research to which the Chairman refers. We do not know the turnout among young people or among Travellers or other minority ethnic groups, for example. It would be really helpful if the commission had the resources to find that out.
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