Barry Andrews (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

The Deputy's party did not exist in those times. That was a correcting mechanism and people have gone through various other reasons this has happened. If there are 400,000 people too many, it shows that the real turn-out at elections is much higher than we realise. The turn-out was 63% at the last election. It is probably more than 70% if that fact is taken into account. However, this only would apply in the more developed areas like mine, I suppose, whereas in Deputy Catherine Murphy's area, it probably operates in the other direction, perhaps, with too few people being registered. There is also the interesting consequence that we probably have too many Deputies in certain areas. As we all know there are supposed to be 20,000——

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