The Joint Committee on the Constitution released the following statement:

The Joint Committee on the Constitution today released a report on the opinions of public representatives with regard to electoral reform.

The views of members from both Houses of the Oireachtas were taken and are put forward in survey format in this report.

The report provides an assessment of the workload and representative role of members, their evaluation of the current electoral system and their preference in relation to reforming the system.

The survey results are also compared with those of an identical survey undertaken in Malta. Given that Malta is the only country in the EU to use Proportional Representation by the Single Transferable Vote (PR-STV) for parliamentary elections, this provides a unique opportunity to assess the influence (PR-STV) has on the representative role of members of the Dáil.

The report is available here.