Ruth Coppinger (Dublin West, Socialist Party)
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564. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures his Department has taken to increase awareness of voting registration before 25 November 2015; and if he will take additional measures to that effect. [40290/15]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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Each year, in November, my Department undertakes a number of measures to promote greater awareness of the register of electors. The objective is to encourage the electorate to check the draft register of electors to ensure that they are correctly registered and to inform the appropriate local authority of any errors or omissions. This can be done onor directly with local authorities who are the registration authorities.

The measures being undertaken to encourage people to check the register this year are:

- the issue of promotional posters to local authorities, members of the Oireachtas, Student Unions, some 48 organisations affiliated to the National Youth Council of Ireland and a range of other organisations, including the Immigrant Council of Ireland, the Irish Centre for Human Rights and the Irish Refugee Council. Local Authorities are asked to display the posters in Council Offices, Garda Stations, Libraries and Post Offices;

- the placement of an advertisement in the National newspapers;

- the inclusion of on-line advertisements throughout the month of November on selected websites - Herald.ie; myhome.ie; and RTE.ie., and on social media – Facebook; and

- the highlighting of the register on my Department’s website and Twitter accounts.