Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)

Forms are submitted to the county registrar. The Minister appears to have some doubt in this regard. The green forms that I am handing out on the doorsteps at present are addressed to the county registrar. If the forms in my constituency are misprinted, I must examine the issue and establish what is going wrong.

In order to apply for inclusion on the supplementary register, one is obliged to have the form signed at a Garda station. In the constituency I represent, people who wish to gain access to a Garda station are obliged to mount a 24-hour vigil. Garda presence has been withdrawn from huge tracts of rural Ireland and one cannot find a garda. While I remember a time when we were tripping over them, one cannot find them now. The Minister should remember the Government promised additional gardaí at the last election but has forgotten to deliver them. They never came.

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