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Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Voting for Irish-born Citizens Abroad: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)

Martin Browne: There is correspondence back from the Department that has been sent to the petitioners. We will not be able to move anything forward until we get correspondence back-----

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Voting for Irish-born Citizens Abroad: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)

Martin Browne: That is up to the Government parties, not Opposition parties.

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Voting for Irish-born Citizens Abroad: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)

Martin Browne: All right.

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Voting for Irish-born Citizens Abroad: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)

Martin Browne: When somebody is knocking on the petitioners doors, they should ask the questions.

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Voting for Irish-born Citizens Abroad: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)

Martin Browne: I am just looking at some of the correspondence here that I had myself. There are plans to trial Internet voting in Bulgaria. Trials are taking place in Sweden and at local and regional level in Wales. Estonia is the only member state that has fully implemented Internet voting but it has been abandoned in France and the Netherlands, and in Germany, voting machines have been established in...

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Voting for Irish-born Citizens Abroad: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)

Martin Browne: They are between six or seven different countries.

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Voting for Irish-born Citizens Abroad: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)

Martin Browne: If the witnesses get the correspondence back, then the secretariat can start getting that kind of information for them, and see what kind of system is out there that suits the Irish-----

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Voting for Irish-born Citizens Abroad: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)

Martin Browne: Once that screen comes on you are live.

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Voting for Irish-born Citizens Abroad: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)

Martin Browne: They are all at home now looking at you on screen.

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Voting for Irish-born Citizens Abroad: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)

Martin Browne: Have members any other issues?

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Voting for Irish-born Citizens Abroad: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)

Martin Browne: Do Ms McLoughlin or Ms Nolan wish to say anything else?

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Voting for Irish-born Citizens Abroad: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)

Martin Browne: The witnesses should email back the correspondence that has been sent to them.

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Voting for Irish-born Citizens Abroad: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)

Martin Browne: Then we can keep the process moving for as long as we are here.

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Voting for Irish-born Citizens Abroad: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)

Martin Browne: Any correspondence that comes back may shunt it down a different route of getting what the witnesses are requesting. The quicker we get it back, the quicker the lads can start working on it.

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Voting for Irish-born Citizens Abroad: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)

Martin Browne: I was gone in 2019 for three months before the general election. I thank Ms McLoughlin and Ms Nolan for coming back in to speak to us today and we will formally consider their petition. We will make the relevant recommendations as soon as we get back.

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Voting for Irish-born Citizens Abroad: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)

Martin Browne: We will now suspend the meeting for five minutes to allow the witnesses to leave.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (17 Oct 2024)

Martin Browne: Next item is the consideration of public petitions. I propose that the petitions considered by the committee at this meeting and previous meetings may be published; and that the replies from the Department and other bodies may also be published. Is that agreed? Agreed. We have five petitions for consideration today. The first is No. P00002/24, "Fairness for Existing Work Permit Holders:...

Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (17 Oct 2024)

Martin Browne: Apologies have been received from Senator Craughwell. We will now go into private session to deal with housekeeping matters.

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Voting for Irish-born Citizens Abroad: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)

Martin Browne: There was a Government Bill introduced in 2019 to allow non-resident citizens to vote. That Bill lapsed in 2020 when the Dáil was dissolved. Did the petitioners go to any TD to try to have that Bill reintroduced, or did they just come straight here?

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Voting for Irish-born Citizens Abroad: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)

Martin Browne: The advice I have been given is that the petitioners should respond to us as quickly as possible so the secretariat can get in touch with the Minister and the Taoiseach. If the committee falls in the meantime, they will know what the response is on whether they need to do anything else and on how to move forward.