Mr. Art O'Leary:

I was at a Dublin adult literacy centre event with the ETB recently. It has a pilot programme to explain the electoral process to members of the community. It is a six-week programme. People go along to a class for an hour a week every six weeks to understand how to register to vote, etc. It is a brilliant programme. The feedback from the individuals who are so enthused about this was that six weeks is not long enough. They wanted more. There is an appetite among some people who are unengaged but who want to become more engaged to understand why they have a voice. We intend to fill that space to the greatest extent possible. Mr. Carey and his team will be producing an education programme that should be eye-watering in its ambition. I think we should absolutely blow the doors off. I have said this already. When we spoke about the education programme and were looking for funding, I said there was probably a civil servant in a basement here, a bean counter, who thinks our education programme will mean delivering a leaflet to every school in the country. We can do much better than that. I would love to ask someone to make a feature film about voting and democracy in this country. So let us see. We could. Hopefully, we will not be the first people to win an Oscar by the time that happens. It is an area in respect of which we can make a real difference.

The issue of two ballot papers is interesting. I spoke to Deputy Haughey earlier about the clarity on each of the ballot papers, too. It does cause confusion. I do not know the answer to this question necessarily, but we should remember that for people voting "Yes", "Yes" and "No" or "No", it does not really matter to them.

It is only when a voter has a more sophisticated "I agree with the referendum on the family but I disagree with that on care" or the opposite way around that this comes into play. I do not know how big that group is, but, based on the information we have, it is certainly something we might come back to and think about.