Peter Mathews (Dublin South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Last Friday, late in the afternoon, the Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Age of Eligibility for Election to the Office of President) Bill 2015 arrived on our desks. Is the Taoiseach serious about this when there are 140,000 children living below the poverty line? Is he serious when there are 19,000 families on housing waiting lists, 40,000 deeply distressed mortgages and hospital waiting lists of over two years in the public health system? Is he serious about spending time to debate reducing the age of eligibility to stand for the presidency to 21 years of age?

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