Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 24 September 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Electoral Arrangements to Protect Democracy and Ballot Integrity: Discussion

3:00 pm

Mr. Art O'Leary:

It is a priority for us because the take-up of 16- and 17-year-olds is very low. Two percent of 16- and 17-year-olds pre-register. We are helped by the fact that, unusually for a communications campaign, we know exactly who these people are, where they are and when they will be there. We will be creating an education campaign to be in schools with 16- and 17-year-olds. The Cathaoirleach may have seen our short video where we showed somebody registering to vote. It takes two minutes and 57 seconds to register to vote now.