Register of Electors
Seanad Éireann — 2025-07-17
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Mike Kennelly (FG), Labour Panel

I thank the Minister of State for his response. I accept it in general terms of policy and decision-making. Electoral fraud is not a victimless crime and it is totally wrong. This guy was not even asked for identification. To say we are running proper registration on voting day is wrong. We do not know how many of these cases exist. I ask the Minister of State and the Minister for local government to review what we have in store. Otherwise, we are preventing the next crop of young people who want to represent their areas from doing so because if this continues, no one will seek election given that it is not a level playing pitch. We know it is going on. If we can do anything today to wake up local government and have a policy driven to stop it, that is all I wish for. If the Minister of State could do that, it would be a good day's work.

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Sitting date: 2025-07-17