Dominic Hannigan (Labour)

What are the Leader's intentions on the Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (EirGrid) Bill scheduled for tomorrow? Does he intend to proceed with that in the morning bearing in mind that he has moved the Broadcasting Bill to tomorrow? I agree with Senator de Búrca regarding the publication of the local election boundary provisions. I, too, believe three-seat constituencies are not the way forward. It is good news to see constituencies with a higher number of seats. However, I ask Senator de Búrca to impress on her leader the need to reform other three-seat constituencies, such as in this House. It is time we saw some movement on Seanad reform. Could she bring that to her leader and see if we can have something on it in the next few months?

There will be much analysis of last weeks' referendum result. I picked up on the low turnout, just over 50%, although we had one of the most intensive and divisive campaigns in living memory. There was a very low turnout. It reminded me of the fact that three years ago the Taoiseach established a task force on active citizenship. It reported two years ago and one of its recommendations was to try to increase turnout up to 80%. We have heard nothing on these recommendations from the active citizenship report in the last two years. It contained some very good ideas and I ask the Leader to invite the Minister to the House to tell us what he will do about implementing those recommendations.