Camillus Glynn (Fianna Fail)

The debate on the electoral register takes place regularly. The current system is a failure. I have come across many people who did not wish to be on the electoral register. If this is not an offence, it should be because registering to vote and voting should be mandatory. How people cast their vote is up to them.

In order to correct the system, we should have all-party agreement to defer the general election for a year. We might have as much chance of getting agreement on that as we have had to date on correcting the electoral register.