Opinion: My polling card will arrive this week, but I live in the UK - Irish citizens abroad should have a vote
Alan Greene THIS IS THE second general election that I’ve watched from abroad after I emigrated from Ireland in 2013.
Likewise, the cost of living, including childcare and transport costs, and problematic health services are all important factors that affect whether a person and their family can return home. We still have skin in the game.From my own perspective, the housing crisis would be the key motivation for my hypothetical vote.
Yet funding for third-level education has been conspicuously absent from the debate so far, notwithstanding the fact that Irish universities have plummeted in the world rankings and third-level funding is 40% below what it was a decade ago. I think the Irish government did well to get the agreement that it did; however, I also think now that for the next stage of Brexit—the forthcoming trade negotiations— the ball is in the court of the 27 members of the EU, rather than Ireland in particular.
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