Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

-----and has gone away from the practice of holding it on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays in the case of referendums. The Taoiseach is denying 12-hour shift workers, commuters and students. These people cannot vote. They are denied the opportunity to vote and I appeal to the Taoiseach at the 11th hour to open the polling stations until 10 p.m. The Minister, Deputy Phil Hogan, did this on 6 March-----

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