Motion: Voting Rights for the Election of the President of Ireland

This Council notes that the 1998 Good Friday Agreement recognises the birth right of all the people of the North to identify themselves and be accepted as Irish or British, or both.

We recall that, in November 2013, the Fifth Report of the Convention on the Constitution recommended to give citizens residing outside the 26 Counties the right to vote in presidential elections.

This Council further notes that Irish citizens living in the north can stand for, and be elected as, President of Ireland but cannot vote in presidential elections; and calls on this Council to write to the Irish Government and ask that they implement the recommendation of the Convention on the constitution with regards to voting rights in presidential elections, thereby extending the right to vote in elections for President of Ireland to all Irish citizens on the island of Ireland.