Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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260. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of spoiled votes in each electoral area in County Mayo in the 2024 local elections, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38638/24]

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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261. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of ballot papers that did not have the required indented perforation on them in each electoral area in County Mayo in the 2024 local elections, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38639/24]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 260 and 261 together.

The Local Elections Regulations 1995 provide that a Local Authority Returning Officer, appointed by the Chief Executive of a local authority, is responsible for the conduct of a local election. This includes ascertaining and declaring the results of an election, and furnishing to the local authority a return of the persons elected to be members of the local authority. The returning officer is responsible for ruling on the validity of a ballot paper. The results of the 2024 local elections for Mayo County Council in each local authority area are available on the Mayo County Council website at the following link . The published results include the number of invalid ballot papers in each local electoral area.

My Department compiles and publishes a report after local elections which sets out the results in each local electoral area and contains a detailed statistical analysis of the results based on returns received from all local authority returning officers. This report includes a breakdown of invalid ballot papers at local authority level based on the reason for their invalidity. The report is currently being compiled by my Department and will be published in due course.