Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 28 November 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Local and European Elections 2024 and Subsequent General Election: Discussion

Mr. Art O'Leary:

The experience, in particular in countries where they allow voting at 16, is that if you develop those habits as a 16-year-old and 17-year-old they tend to become lifelong habits. In small classes it will take ten minutes to say they will all sign up on the electoral register as 16-year-olds and 17-year-olds. It is not difficult and it is not rocket science. It is something we will take full advantage of.

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