Mr. Niall Burgess:

It is a number of things. It is the way our embassies and missions are set up. Some are very small, modest offices that do not lend themselves to being polling booths. It is related to our spread. We are not where even some of the classic Irish communities have been. We are only opening now in New Zealand, where there is a very large emigrant Irish community. Newer, recent Irish communities are much more dispersed than the older Irish communities. In Australia, we have a large Irish community in Perth and in Melbourne. They will not come to Canberra or to Sydney to vote. We have also looked at how other systems operate. I will ask Ms Caitríona Ingoldsby from our Irish Abroad unit to talk about this. We have been looking at this closely to see how it might be operated.