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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Absolutely, and very successfully so.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: It would have been, yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: No, in fact, we would have used very little online advertising. Also, to be very clear, Deputy Higgins, we would never use the electoral register or information gleaned from canvassing, or the Abú system, for any of our online advertising. It is obviously recorded in Facebook for the public to see.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: No. For example, the typical type of advertising is when we have organic content, we would boost it at a constituency level, geographically or by age, etc.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: We do not use any information from the electoral register or canvass returns in any of our online advertising activity. All of the online advertising activity is done in exactly the same way as Deputy Higgins, or any other party, would do in the course of an election or outside of an election.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: No, absolutely not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: That would be a very straightforward thing, namely, face-to-face interactions. They would ordinarily be at the door but sometimes you will do a canvass at a stall or some other location. They would be recording face-to-face interactions during an election canvass, during an election period.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: No, absolutely not. Again, let me be very clear so there is no confusion. We do not take any information from social media or, as Senator Fitzpatrick asked, from our constituency work as politicians and in any way cross-reference, upload or integrate that with the electoral register. The electoral register is purely for canvassed returns and get-out-the-vote operations during an election...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Absolutely not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Usually, there would be no data recorded in that. I suppose it is just one of the fields that the designer of the system put in. The only thing I could think of from my personal experience is every so often when you are on a canvass, as I am sure Deputy Higgins knows, and somebody who is a voter for your party requests, for example, that they would like a lift to the polling station on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: First of all, with respect to the particular advertisement, a proper way of characterising it is that there were not 17 different versions of the advertisement, it was the same advertisement in that instance. What we were interested in doing was seeing how different demographics would react to it. As Deputy Higgins knows, it is a facility Facebook provides and therefore you might have had...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: First of all, from my experience, it would be very rare that a constituency would have the capacity to do that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: As Deputy Higgins is aware, she is in a constituency where the Sinn Féin organisation is very strong. We have two out of the four Deputies. Therefore, some of that information will have been put in manually. Traditionally, people would have taken the marked register and their canvass returns and compared them visually. That is a facility that in some instances we will be able to do,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: They do not do that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, in the same way as they could pass the physical register to other members of the party, but it is not something they do. We guard the register carefully, whether in hard or electronic format.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: No, you cannot email the register. As I sure the Chairman will know, when the local authority provides local government candidates or Deputies with copies of the register, that is often in electronic format. It is often emailed or provided in a compact disc or memory stick. Strictly speaking, anybody could pass that information on, but that would not be the practice. The electoral...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is not that the register goes to others; it is that designated officials, during the election, have access to the online system, in the same way, for example, members of other parties might have bespoke systems that they purchase for candidates or constituencies, such as NationBuilder or Ecanvasser.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Senator for the question. I want to confirm that it is contained within the EU. As we said recently on the public record, the Abú system specifically is in Germany.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: With respect to the marked register, that tool is used locally and within the context of local election campaigns, not something that is used centrally. With respect to the Dublin Bay South election, the value of the marked register is that it is an aid to assist in improving turnout. One of the reasons, I understand, that political parties, Independents and candidates have access to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Deputy for the questions. The information would be on voting intentions and it would be very simple information, particularly in terms of whether people are indicating they are intending to vote for Sinn Féin. The information is kept for two electoral cycles.