A North Down MLA has reiterated calls for lowering the voting age in Northern Ireland ahead of Assembly elections this summer.
Rachel Woods has said that 16 and 17-year-olds should be given the right to vote, a motion that the Green Party first brought to the Assembly ten years ago.
The Green Party MLA for North Down said: “At 16 you pay tax and national insurance when you start work, you can leave home, leave education, work full-time, apply for social security. In Scotland and Wales young people already have their say in their local elections, but not here in Northern Ireland.
