Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 22 June 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bill: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of John CumminsJohn Cummins (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----the PPS number and Revenue, it will leave us with a cohort of people.

We should put a timeline of three months on that because we cannot allow the register to continue to be inaccurate. The register includes the names of many people who are deceased, which causes difficulties, and people who are no longer being at the relevant address. Has the data impact assessment the Data Protection Commissioner mentioned when he was before us been completed? What are we looking at in terms of the process moving from one to the other?

With regard to closing that loop at the end when somebody passes away, is there a system in place to automatically remove that person's name from the register? We have difficulties with people being called for jury service and letters being sent to people who have passed away. I want to make sure that when we pass this legislation, we have all those bases covered and we will not repeat the same mistakes.

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