Pay levels making it difficult to recruit staff for election count centres, Oireachtas to hear

The returning officer from Dublin city, Joseph Burke, will reference that staff are expected to work from around 6.30am to 10.30pm

At the last general election, counters at count centres received €272 for the first 12 hours of work and €26 an hour after that. This rose to €485 for presiding officers. File picture: Andy Gibson

The money paid to staff at count centres is “no longer attractive to many people” and is making it harder to recruit ahead of the general election, an Oireachtas Committee is set to hear.

Furthermore, it will hear a major review into the electoral register is being finalised and will be published before the end of the year.