Victor Boyhan (Independent) | Oireachtas source

To wrap up, I thank the Minister of State for that reply and I note he is aware of the issue of modernising the administration of the register of electors and enhancing the integrity of those registers. I do not believe we will have all of this in place for the next general election, looking at the political landscape ahead of us.

I will make one further comment. It is important that we do not keep reinventing the wheel. A very significant and important body of work was done by Professor Richard Sinnott, the Geary Institute, John Coakley and John O'Dowd and I have brought a copy along here today. I will put it in the post to the Minister of State. They prepared a very detailed and substantive document in UCD on a whole range of the issues that we have discussed this morning. I have been in touch with them and it is important to tap into this very expert resource, where we not have to spend any more money on committees and research. This is very important document which should be worked into the process. I again thank the Minister of State for his very detailed response.