Ms Petra Woods:

It is about half and half. About half are new registrations and half are updates of existing registrations. One of the things that makes it a little bit difficult at the moment is that we have two different systems in operation across local authorities. The four Dublin ones are already working on one shared system, on voter.ie, and the other 27 have individual set ups. Checktheregister.ieas a portal works for all of them. We have done some work to integrate the process of people moving between local authorities so that two local authorities are notified. That was previously quite a manual process where you get a form, do the necessary and then send it on to the other local authority. We have done some work to make sure that is a little more automatic and a little easier for local authorities to manage and keep track of. There are significant improvements but I suppose the big one will come when the national system, which we have also provided for under the Electoral Reform Act, is up and running. That will be an expansion of the existing voter.ieoperating in Dublin and all local authorities will come to use that system once it is ready. The procurement around that is under way at the moment and expected to be finished in 2026.