Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 28 November 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Local and European Elections 2024 and Subsequent General Election: Discussion

Ms Petra Woods:

They have. They are working through. We provided them with a legislative framework that gives them the full year to work with. Often, they had to stop and start. They had a register, a draft and so on. They can now engage all year round with their communities. We provided them with funding in April this year to do additional activities to get more people to register and update their details. As I said, to date there have been 156,000 updates to the register spread across all local authorities.