Written answers

Tuesday, 11 May 2021

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Constitutional Amendments

Photo of Rose Conway-WalshRose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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75. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when he plans to progress the Thirty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Presidential Elections) Bill 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24210/21]

Photo of Colm BrophyColm Brophy (Dublin South West, Fine Gael)
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The Government is committed to holding a referendum on extending the franchise at Presidential elections to Irish citizens living outside the State as set out in the Programme for Government and affirmed in new Diaspora Strategy which was launched in November last year.

To this end the Government restored the Thirty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Presidential Elections) Bill 2019 to the Dáil Order Paper.

The Government has yet to consider the timing of the referendum. Before any referendum would be scheduled, relevant legislation has to be passed and, in light of Covid-19, any Public Health requirements taken into consideration.

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