Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)

In normal circumstances country registrars would be able to start their work on 23 September. The time available to them is already truncated. Councils will have to work hard because, as Deputy Gilmore pointed out, if substantial changes are required after the register is signed off, some process will have to be observed. It would not be wise to change the deadlines as the local authorities have more than adequate time to do their work. One or two of them have incorrectly argued that I am making life difficult for them.

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