This "ROS electronic signatures" facility on core.ie is a cop-out as the vast majority of Irish company directors will not have ROS electronic signatures - simply because they generally delegate ROS tax return submissions to their tax agents.
The CRO should have introduced their own electronic signatures system donkeys years ago. Online banking, based on electronic signatures, became available a decade ago - at various stages in the meantime CRO officials have cited "difficulties with legislation" as a reason for doing nothing in this area. Yet there have been several changes to the Companies Acts in the meantime, and precious little progress on this front. Will it take another decade for the CRO to catch up?