Fiona O'Loughlin (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)
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55. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost to send out voting cards to each registered voter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46027/18]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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Electoral law provides that where a poll is to be taken at a referendum or a Dáil, European, Presidential or local election, the returning officer shall send to every elector whose name is on the relevant register of electors for the constituency and who is not on the postal or special voters lists, a card (referred to as a polling information card). The purpose of the card is to inform the elector of his or her number (including polling district letter) on the relevant register of electors and of the place at which he or she is entitled to vote. The card also contains a statement in relation to the documents required for the purposes of establishing a person’s right to vote. At a referendum, the polling information card also contains a statement for the information of voters in relation to the proposal which is the subject of the referendum. I have no plans at present to change arrangements in regard to polling information cards.