The Government has said it will not oppose Aontú's bill which would extend voting rights for Irish presidential elections to all Irish citizens living in Northern Ireland.
Aontú presented its Forty-first Amendment of the Constitution (Voting Rights in Presidential Elections) Bill 2025 for second stage this evening in the Dáil.
Party leader Peadar Tóibín said that the bill would extend "the democratic franchise, the right to vote, to all Irish citizens across the country in presidential elections".
"This is no small thing at all. Enfranchising one million Irish citizens is massively important," Mr Tóibín said.
The last time something on this scale happened was 1918, he added.
Refusing the right to vote for Irish citizens in Northern Ireland is "a massive attack" on democratic rights, he claimed.
Mr Tóibín lauded "the sheer joy" allowing them to vote in presidential elections would create.
Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure Emer Higgins said the Government would not oppose the bill, and would keep the matter under review.
