Ruth Coppinger (Dublin West, Solidarity)
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88. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will bring forward legislative change to allow for those who are pregnant or who have recently given birth to apply for a postal vote in all elections and referenda; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52166/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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Electoral law provides for postal voting for a number of different categories of people:

• 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 go in person to vote because of 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.