Ms Petra Woods:

The combined total electorate is approximately 3.5 million people. As the Senator said, 31 registration authorities manage the register for their own administrative areas. We have been gathering some information from local authorities. Previously, we only had counts which were done annually and then a count of a supplement at an electoral event. We have been starting to gather some data on the quality of the information local authorities have. We are gathering information on PPSN, dates of birth, Eircodes and so on. We gather this information on a quarterly basis largely to see how effective our registration campaigns are. We have had approximately 156,000 applications through the various portals.