Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 15 April 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs
Voting Rights of EU Citizens: Discussion (Resumed)
2:50 pm
Dominic Hannigan (Meath East, Labour) | Oireachtas source
We are hoping to have a member of the French National Assembly, Axelle Lemaire, who represents Ireland, England and Scandinavia, come before the committee. French citizens living here, in the United Kingdom or Scandinavia vote for her. Her office is in Camden Town, London. In the same way as Deputies here come up from the country on a Tuesday and return on a Thursday, she goes to Paris for the meetings of the National Assembly but lives in the United Kingdom. I am not sure if candidates must be members of the diaspora or if they choose to live where the voters are.
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