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. Barry Ryan:
To add to that point, in terms of the double columns, the legislation provides that it can be a double column and it has been used in the past. One other practical difficulty in this regard, however, is that since we introduced the ballot paper template for visually-impaired voters, this is a standard in terms of a single column layout rather than a double column layout. It is just another practical challenge in respect of moving towards having two columns.