Mr. Art O'Leary:

I am not sure the turnout figures proved that fact afterwards. For working parents, Saturdays can be like Christmas Eve. There are all kinds of things going on, family activities and all sorts. For people who are used to voting on the way home from or to work, this new idea of voting on a Saturday was something that we had to try as a State. We should encourage people to try new initiatives. I like the idea of people who want to vote in their community to get the opportunity to go and visit. We will try to give people with a disability the opportunity to vote using a postal vote, perhaps, but if they want to go to a polling station, then we somehow have to make that happen. There is much work to be done. Mr. Dolan and Ms Carthy will probably be able to give a better response about the issue regarding the EU. We are speaking to the EU and starting to join EU networks ourselves to try to uncover the work we could do to collaborate and solve these problems.