Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 21 June 2018
Public Accounts Committee
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 14 - Control of Ireland's Bilateral Assistance Programme
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade
9:00 am
Shane Cassells (Meath West, Fianna Fail)
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I have a final question. With regard to elections, there has been much talk of extending the franchise to Irish citizens abroad. I sit on the Seanad electoral reform group myself. That has been spoken about with regard to elections too. Many other countries use their embassies abroad to facilitate that with elections. What opinion do the witnesses have about replicating that? Would we be equipped to do that, both from a cost and a practicality point of view?