Mr. Art O'Leary:

These are European Parliament elections. We allow people to vote in Dáil elections and local elections as well. We have been doing some work to support the British Electoral Commission recently. They have started to offer people living in Ireland a vote in British elections now as well. Residents in this country can vote in the forthcoming British election too. There are many things here. We did not touch on it and maybe it is a step too far for this committee, but there was a commitment in the programme for Government to extend voting rights to our diaspora in presidential elections as well. The Taoiseach announced recently that there might be a referendum. The time to have a referendum on that particular issue would be to coincide with the presidential election in October 2025. It is an area we will look at. If we think we have a difficulty with the electoral register as it stands, we would have to think about how we might create an electoral register and, even worse, how people might vote, whether by post or turning up in embassies. Electronic voting, anyone?