John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)

However, it was not done for local elections. I recognise that it was a progressive move on the part of the Leas-Cheann Comhairle when he was Minister to introduce such measures and the same Government introduced other measures, such as the Freedom of Information Act. I have always been on the record with regard to these matters.

Last week, Deputy Tuffy's colleague, Deputy Ciarán Lynch, recommended an approach to electronic voting which I referred to a committee where it could be discussed and an article on this was published in The Irish Times. I have done the same with this matter. I want to get all-party consensus on this issue and this should be possible. It is recognised that we have an anomaly whereby limits are in place for general elections but no such limits exist for local elections.

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