Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 17 October 2024

Committee on Public Petitions

Consideration of Public Petition on Voting for Irish-born Citizens Abroad: Discussion

1:30 pm

Photo of Pat BuckleyPat Buckley (Cork East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

No, just to say that it is opening the door. The witnesses have done that now. They have opened the conversation again. This is a people's forum here. We are probably talking weeks when there will be a change of government. I would encourage the witnesses to come back because a petitions committee will be formed after a new Dáil. It has been trialled. Some places have disagreed and some agreed with it. The witnesses have their evidence-based stuff there already but the big fire they lit in my head was that we have that international site.

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