John Cummins (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I echo some of the Chair's comments. It is regrettable some of the political parties refuse to take up an offer from this committee to come before it with regard to the groundbreaking and comprehensive electoral reform Bill before us. I compliment the Minister of State and his officials on their engagement with us.

I raised some points at the outset of this pre-legislative scrutiny regarding the focus on the electoral register and the process of moving from the existing system to what will be the new system. In response to some of the questions in the first part of this meeting, it was stated that before people may be considered for removal from the register, three letters would issue to find out if they are still at the address. If we are to get this right, we need to streamline that process. If we can match up-----