Mr. Mark Bassett:

Typically, voting rights are attached to citizenship. As an Irish citizen, someone would be expected to participate at some level in the member state of his or her nationality. Where he or she has exercised his or her free movement rights, he or she is excluded from voting in elections to the national Legislature. He or she has a vote in European Parliament elections. There is at least the possibility of a challenge to the rule on the basis that it is making the exercising of these rights less attractive.