Mr. Ger Deering:

With regards design, in more recent years separate and different coloured paper has been used in an attempt to eliminate confusion in cases where one has more than one referendum. We know that when there are multiple referendums the number of spoiled votes tends to rise in comparison with a single referendum. As Mr. Falvey mentioned earlier, there was a time when the title of the referendum did not include what its purpose was. That led to a lot of confusion because one might have to vote on three different referendums just using the number of the referendum but all of them were on the same paper. To remove that confusion we now use a separate paper with the title included. The statistics have shown that one tends to have more spoiled votes in a multiple referendum.