Joanna Tuffy (Labour)

I move amendment No. 7:

In page 19, line 35, to delete "may" and substitute "shall".

This is an amendment to section 21(3). If the Minister is allowing the authority to require the type of verification listed in the subsection, he might as well make it a mandatory requirement. It is important that all the facts and details contained in the application should be verified. On the requirement to supply a Garda certificate, similar certificates are required for other purposes as a matter of form. When people wish to go on the supplemental register they are required to obtain a certificate signed by a member of the Garda Síochána. Many such certificates will be required coming up to elections. I do not see why this requirement should not be made mandatory in this legislation.