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

Ms GrĂ¡inne McLoughlin:

I am in agreement. It is a bit worrying, if we are moving forward as a country, that we are not keeping up with everyone else. Even with the EU, we need to be moving forward a little bit. It is not even all of the Irish connections. There are approximately 3 million people who grew up here and it is about looking at those people first.