Seanad debates

Wednesday, 21 March 2018

Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Committee Stage

 

10:30 am

Photo of Jennifer Murnane O'ConnorJennifer Murnane O'Connor (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

-----going on about this, that and the other and that everyone is against them. That is not true.Fianna Fáil supports a referendum in 2019. We will support a referendum to get the youth of Ireland to vote. I am giving that commitment. I was a councillor for 18 years and have been a Senator for two years. I knocked on doors from the age of 14 or 15. I will always work with Ógra Fianna Fáil and always have. Like everyone else here, I have gone into schools and given talks supporting politics. There is no point playing the blame game here. How does Senator Ruane know when a referendum will take place? We have said that we will put this to the people in a referendum. We will support young people having a vote in local and Europeans election. I will go back to my party today and clarify that point.

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