Senate to consider proposal from UL on extending voting rights

THE Senate will today vote on a proposal to sit at the University of Limerick to discuss a motion to open up voting rights to the upper house of the Oireachtas to all third-level graduates.

The proposal was initiated by the University of Limerick Alumni Association (ULAA) and will be put to the Seanad through the university senators representing Trinity and NUI colleges.

Although a referendum was passed in 1979 by more than half a million Irish citizens, no legislation has to date been enacted to extend representation in the Senate to all third-level colleges.