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.