Paschal Mooney (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The register was reasonably accurate; in fact, it was nearly always accurate. Senator Ó Domhnaill spoke about a reduction in the membership of political parties. There was a tradition in Fianna Fáil, and I am sure the same was true for the Fine Gael and Labour parties, that when the draft registers came out annually, a special meeting was held. People trawled through the register to ensure that those in their immediate parish, branch or cumann area were on the register. This was before the regime of the supplementary register. That structure was in place in addition to the rate collector system, but both of those are now effectively gone.