The funding will be used to improve voter registration online.
Midlands county councils have been allocated additional funds today to improve the collection of electoral register data.
The total funding of 3 million euro is to enable the local authorities in Laois, Offaly, and Westmeath to modernise electoral registration and build on work done over the last two years.
Significant changes to electoral registration process in 2022 included introducing rolling voter registration and enabling online applications
Minister for Housing and Local Government, James Browne says a lot of work is going into updating the system:
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