Professor Colin Harvey presents evidence to the Oireachtas on ‘Brexit, Northern Ireland and Human Rights’ and on ‘Voting Rights in Presidential Elections’.

Professor Colin Harvey presented evidence on the issue of Citizenship Rights to the Seanad Special Select Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (27 April 2017). The proceedings are available here:   

http://beta.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad_special_committee_on_the_withdrawal_of_the_united_kingdom_from_the_european_union/2017-04-27/4/

and the written Opening Statement to the Committee is available here:

http://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/committee/seanad/25/seanad_committee_on_the_withdrawal_of_the_uk_from_the_eu/submissions/2017/2017-04-27_opening-statement-colin-harvey-queen-s-university-belfast_en.pdf

Professor Harvey and Mark Bassett also delivered evidence (18 May 2017) to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement on ‘Voting Rights’. Further information is available here:

http://www.oireachtas.ie/parliament/mediazone/pressreleases/2017/name-42092-en.html

and their recent blog on this subject is available here:  

http://qpol.qub.ac.uk/voting-irish-presidential-elections/

 

 

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Professor Colin Harvey

The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice

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