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Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Voting Rights of Citizens within EU: European Commission (11 Mar 2014)

Eric Byrne: I thank Ms Nolan for her contribution. We are 40 years in the EU but the attitude of successive governments to the Irish diaspora has been disgraceful. I have recorded this view on many occasions. I base my view on my embarrassment on realising, as an OSCE election monitor, that a very diverse range of countries, including Ukraine, Romania and other former eastern European counties, had...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Voting Rights of Citizens within EU: European Commission (11 Mar 2014)

Timmy Dooley: ...who reside in the Union should be entitled to participate in elections here. This is long overdue. As the witnesses will know, there has been a wider debate on the extension of the franchise to the diaspora. While those who remain within the European Union certainly have a legitimate expectation to have a vote, it might be different for citizens who travel farther afield. However,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Voting Rights of Citizens within EU: European Commission (11 Mar 2014)

Bernard Durkan: ...for years as well. If they are permanently posted abroad by their employers, public or private, they probably should retain the right to vote throughout Europe. The big question relates to the diaspora worldwide and the degree to which one can prove a point, without impacting severely on the electoral decision of the people at home. It is a serious issue. It is something of which the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Voting Rights of Citizens within EU: European Commission (11 Mar 2014)

...and work. That is already in place. The principle has already been seeded on those two areas. What we are addressing here is the national elections. We are getting a little caught up with the diaspora. Ireland is a member of the European Union and under that there is the concept of a citizen of the Union with certain rights that go with that, which is not the case for countries...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Voting Rights of Citizens within EU: European Commission (11 Mar 2014)

Bernard Durkan: ...or another, or it does not disprove one's right to vote in two constituencies. The final point I want to make is that I do not believe this can be done without including some of the wider diaspora in the United States, Canada and New Zealand. It would be unfair to exclude those who left this country in the past five years, for example, and went to Australia, Canada or elsewhere. On...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Voting Rights of Citizens within EU: European Commission (11 Mar 2014)

Ms Barbara Nolan: We are not talking about the wider Irish diaspora beyond the European Union. We are talking only about those Irish citizens who have moved to other EU member states, because is not our remit to go beyond that. I acknowledge that there is another considerable issue, but it is not the subject of our recommendation of communication. Deputy Kyne mentioned particular...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Voting Rights of Citizens within EU: European Commission (11 Mar 2014)

Seán Crowe: ...or the other. The body politic protects itself and does not want to introduce change in that regard. Sinn Féin launched its own document today, Moving Forward Together: A Vision for the Global Irish Diaspora, in which there is reference to the presidential election. In the Dáil today Sinn Féin will put forward a Bill proposing an amendment of the Constitution to allow...