Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, Solidarity)
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728. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will update the voting process to make it easier for people to register for a postal vote; if he will extend the list of those who qualify for a postal vote to include those who are overseas; if he will take into account that other countries allow their citizens to vote in parliamentary elections as overseas voters. [46679/24]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal East, Fianna Fail)
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Under electoral law, postal voting is available for a number of different categories of people including the following:

• whole-time members of the Defence Forces
• members of An Garda Síochána
• Irish diplomats serving abroad and their spouses/civil partners
• electors living at home who are unable to vote because of an illness or a disability
• electors whose occupation, service or employment makes it likely that they will be unable to vote in person at their local polling station on polling day
• full-time students registered at their home who are living elsewhere while attending an educational institution in the State,
• prisoners, and
• certain election staff employed at the poll outside the constituency where they reside.