Mr. Art O'Leary:

A couple of points were raised by Deputy Tully. The electoral register is a challenge because there is no such thing as the "electoral register". There are 31 separate registers run by local authorities, while Dublin City Council does the four local authority areas in Dublin city and county. The issue of duplicates does not crop up. If someone is born in County Kerry, studies in Dublin and then does a master's degree at the University of Limerick, it is likely that person will collect registrations in every place he or she has lived because none of these local authorities talk to each other now. This is the big project that is being done and run out of the Custom House. When it is finished, it will be brilliant. I urge all the members and their constituents to go to www.checktheregister.ie, upload their PPSN and date of birth and let us aim to have a bulletproof electoral register by 2025 or 2026.

For the record, I agree entirely that all our materials should be accessible to everybody. Our head of communications, Brian Dawson, has great experience in this area. All our materials will be in as accessible a format as possible for everybody.

There is much work to be done. It takes an awful lot of time and effort to do it but it is worthwhile.