Roche: no extending deadline to register

ENVIRONMENT Minister Dick Roche yesterday refused to extend the deadline for voters to check the electoral register beyond November 25.

Mr Roche told a meeting of an all-party Oireachtas committee that no local authority has indicated to him that an extension of time was needed.

He further argued that extending the deadline could require amending legislation and would pose difficulties in terms of completing the final register by February 15 2007, as is required by law.