John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)
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Article 92 of the Local Elections Regulations 1995 provides that the relevant local authority returning officer is responsible for retaining the marked copies of the register of electors used at polling stations at a local election. Article 92(3) of the Regulations requires the returning officer to retain the marked copies of the register for a period of 6 months after the election and then to cause them to be destroyed (unless otherwise directed by an order of a court or the local authority returning officer has reason to believe that the copies may be required for the purposes of instituting or maintaining a prosecution for an electoral offence or for the purposes of a petition).

Article 94 of the Regulations requires the marked copies of the register of electors, retained by the local authority returning officer under these provisions, to be open to public inspection at such time and under such conditions as may be specified by the returning officer. Article 94 also requires the returning officer to supply copies of or extracts from the marked registers to any person demanding the same, on payment of such fees not exceeding the reasonable cost of copying and subject to such conditions as may be determined by the local authority.