Requirement to issue reasoned decision

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1992/en/act/pub/0023/print.html#sec21

The Electoral Act 1992

PART XXI

D?il Election Petitions

132.— (7) At the trial of a petition the HighCourt shall determine the matter at issue in the petition and, if it does notdismiss the petition, shall, where appropriate, include in its orderdetermining the matter at issue either—

(a) a declaration of the correctresult of the election concerned, or

(b) if it considers that it isunable to determine the correct result of the election, a declaration that theelection or a specified part thereof was void together with a statement of itsreasons for making the declaration.