Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

The chairperson sets up a process and the group notifies him or her that it is a registered group. The chairperson might decide to conduct a session with the various groups, so that groups could be challenged on their eligibility. We do not want a situation where there are thousands of groups claiming to be legitimate. Some level of protection against that is afforded by the requirement that a person must be a resident and registered on the Electoral Register in order to vote. In that way, a person who is from Dún Laoghaire cannot claim to be legitimate in the Grangegorman area.

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