Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

At the end of the day, it always reminds me of a meeting that I was at years ago. We were talking about roads because what do they talk about in rural Ireland but roads? There was a man there who had a very poor boreen to his house and he asked me where all this European money for roads was going. I mentioned a very big road that was 60 miles away from him but still in County Galway, just outside Galway city, and I said that was where the European money was going. He looked at me and said: “I don’t want to go to Oranmore. I want to go to Ballyconneely”, because he was eight miles west of Ballyconneely. The one that is really useful for us, in my experience, is not the general county information. People want to know, “When am I going to get it?”, and that is what they get on to us about.

NBI asks for them to give the eircode. Of course, we tell them to do whatever the website says, and I would certainly encourage constituents to register. Are they getting more information when they register than we are getting on the public version of the website for the same eircode?