Council updates vote by ignoring regulations

THE FG/Labour-controlled Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown County Council apparently was the only local authority in the country that managed successfully to update its electoral register on time and without making widespread errors or incorrect deletions.

And how did they do it? Simple: they completely ignored the ridiculous regulations given to them by the Minister for the Environment, Dick Roche.

The cathaoirleach of the council, Cllr Eugene Regan, has estimated that if they had followed the minister’s regulations, up to 30,000 people would have been deleted from the register unnecessarily because they didn’t reply to a letter that was sent to them.