James Bannon (Fine Gael)

All citizens should be added to the register automatically on reaching the age of 18. This is not happening.

On another issue I ask the Leader to invite the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Deputy Noel Dempsey, to come before the House and tell us the reason he wants to close down our rural post office network. Under the watchful eye of the Government, a quarter of all post offices have closed during the past six years. This is shameful and disgraceful.