Mr. John Carroll:

I thank the Deputy for the question. I think the pre-legislative scrutiny of this legislation is very important. I think there is a lot in this legislation, which is very positive and will help more people to come out and vote, particularly the measures highlighted earlier about the PPS number and trying to get younger people on to the register earlier. I am very conscious this is something Deputy John Paul Phelan started when he was in the Custom House as a Minister of State in the last Dáil.

With regard to the registers we hold, we hold them in the format in which we receive them. We hold them locally. We do not extract from them, we do not scrape from them, we do not export information from them-----