Pat O'Neill (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will conclude. I called for this debate previously. People should not need to register themselves because a PPS number should be a means of automatic inclusion on the electoral register.If that were the case, we would not have this situation where 65,000 people were obliged to apply to go on the supplementary register. As I said, the number of spoiled votes, at 2,066, and non-transferable votes in the by-election worries me.