Written answers

Tuesday, 3 February 2015

Department of Environment, Community and Local Government

Election Management System

Photo of Noel GrealishNoel Grealish (Galway West, Independent)
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574. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will clarify the position regarding Northern Ireland holders of Irish passports and entitlements to vote in elections (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4739/15]

Photo of Alan KellyAlan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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In order to be able to vote at an election or referendum in Ireland, a person’s name must be entered on the register of electors for the constituency in which the elector ordinarily resides in the State. The compilation and maintenance of the register of electors is a matter for each local registration authority (City, County or City and County Council).

Subject to age and residency requirements, a registered elector’s citizenship determines the polls as which he or she is entitled to vote. British citizens may vote at Dáil, European Parliament and local elections; EU citizens may vote at European Parliament and local elections; non-EU citizens may vote at local elections; Irish citizens alone are entitled to vote at Presidential elections and referendums.

Recommendations made in the Fifth Report of the Convention on the Constitution relating to giving citizens resident outside the State and citizens resident in Northern Ireland the right to vote in Presidential elections are being examined in my Department.

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