Mr. Barry Ryan:

If I may, Chair, I will address some of the four or five points the Deputy mentioned at the end of my contribution about voting age, use of posters, the use of postal voting, the replacement of by-elections, and the limitation on persons who are temporarily living outside of the State with regard to the electoral register. Those issues were before the committee the last time the Electoral Commission's research programme was out for public consultation. Those issues have been included in the Electoral Commission's research programme and the timelines set out in that programme for the commission-----