Michael Kitt (Fianna Fail)

I support the call for a debate on the electoral registration process. Calls for such a debate are ironic given that the closing date was last Monday. There has been confusion about the different closing dates for different categories of voters. I checked with Galway County Council on Monday, the closing date, when 1,200 people arrived with their registration forms. There should be a better way of dealing with the voter registration issue. I favoured in the past, and still favour, the idea of a census similar to the census of population. There should be a more practical way of ensuring people's names are on the register so that they will not be disappointed on election day.