Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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503. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the progress in advancing the proposal to enable persons living in Northern Ireland and emigrants to vote in presidential elections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43001/14]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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The Government expects to respond to the recommendations in the Fifth Report of the Convention on the Constitution to give citizens resident outside the State and citizens resident in Northern Ireland the right to vote in Presidential elections before the end of the current Dáil session.