Brian Ó Domhnaill (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I agree with the comments of my colleague, Senator O'Neill, on the electoral register. It is in a mess. Every individual living in the State or contributing to it should be entitled to a vote. It is wrong that people would be inadvertently removed from the register. The Seanad could do the citizens of the country some service by proposing a number of recommendations regarding the electoral register. Linking it to the PPSN system is probably the way to go. A previous Oireachtas committee on the environment made such a proposal a number of years ago and I am not sure why it has not been implemented. That is a matter we should examine and the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government should be invited to come before the House.

I wish to propose an amendment to the Order of Business requesting the Minister for Health to come before the House again today to provide clarity to the confusion he created yesterday on the future of maternity services in the five hospitals in the west-north west hospital group. Confusion has been created-----