Martin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

-----in the circumstances in question. We are baby-sitting a dog at the minute for a niece of my wife. She is gone for 18 months. We think she intends to come back, but we are stuck with the dog.

On what the committee can do, we could contact a Minister and try to put on pressure. Everybody here, and most people we talk to, agree with the petitioners that there are appropriate systems available. Given that there are Third World countries in Africa where people queue for days to cast a vote, maybe we can have a system for citizens who have left the country. As Senator Murphy said, if a citizen is gone for 40 years, that is fine, but if the period is 18 months or two or three years, most people at that stage-----