legal identity - who a person’s documents say they are. When proving identity at any stage of the naturalisation process, the citizenship division in my Department requires evidence that a name has been used consistently. This is the bedrock of proving a person’s identity while also helping
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elapse first. This needs to be looked at in the naturalisation process because my constituent has been forced to cancel their application for citizenship and has lost their fee. They do not want to carry on with obtaining an important State document with their old or so-called
apartheid regime in 1994.
Nelson Mandela himself recognised the value of their gesture in 1990 when he was awarded honorary citizenship of Dublin. On that occasion, Mandela declared that the strikers had shown South Africans that ordinary people, far from the scene, had played a pioneering role
saying about vetting but, whether it is with the Defence Forces, people who are applying to An Garda Síochána or those applying for citizenship, the timelines for some parts of vetting are outside of our control. As I said, if people have lived at multiple addresses
School and the green committee there. Donal McMorland, Jason Woods and Jack O'Neill were the regional winners of the award for global citizenship today in Tullamore. They are very welcome to Dáil Éireann.
The Minister, Deputy Browne, did not make that decision, but there was a communication
this is an affront to the Good Friday Agreement, which states that citizens in the North of Ireland have the right to Irish citizenship.
The Good Friday Agreement has been in place since 1998 but we still have not implemented the spirit of it in the intervening period
Unit Developments Act to the Department of housing so we can have a regulator with teeth and stop the type of two-tier citizenship whereby homeowners are forced to pay for their own roads, lights and security on top of record property taxes
people living in Poland who used to live in Ireland. There are at least 10,000 children in Poland who have Irish citizenship. It is quite extraordinary that there is a St. Patrick's Day parade in a place like Lódz, which is one of the biggest cities
legislating to support exists because a bereaved father refused to accept that either state could simply move on. That is what citizenship looks like at its most determined. We owe it to him and to every family affected to match his determination with our own.
The Omagh bombing
should put the same energy that they put into the deportation flights, into creating that charging regime for international protection applicants and making citizenship and family reunification that bit harder, into driving forward State-owned provision. By doing that, we do two really important things. We start
Minister before and I will raise it again today, specifically in respect of the three-year term for a person to get citizenship. I understand he may be changing that to two years, but he could go further with it. This is something I have real concerns about
necessarily disagree with the Deputy on that point but there are very real challenges. People may have dual or triple citizenship and there are a lot of things at play. They may not want Irish Government assistance. One thing the Irish Government does in all jurisdictions is work
repressed, but we have not mentioned the very worrying number of, quite frankly, foreign stooges propagating from Russia - some of whom have Irish citizenship - talking about the regime and spreading misinformation and disinformation. We also need to be in a position to call them out and challenge them
regard, I do not have a problem with the changes proposed to the time period within which people are allowed to apply for citizenship or naturalisation.
The notion you would come here under a work permit to work in this country as part of an immigration scheme
various enactments to reassign from the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to me, the Minister for justice, the responsibility for certifying Irish citizenship where it is relevant to certain offences. This will bring the enactments in question into line with the approach taken in more recent legislation
duplexes. Public health remains central, with legislation to regulate nicotine-inhaling products. The programme will also see work continuing to address parentage and citizenship issues arising from assisted human reproduction. Measures in the transport legislative programme include road safety measures, updates to railway safety standards, tackling planning constraints
Office of the Attorney General. Formal drafting of the AHR amendment Bill, which is largely concerned with outstanding issues of parentage and citizenship but also seeks to make other refinements and improvements to various sections of the AHR Act 2024 itself, is at an advanced stage
make right the legal inequality for the families we are talking about. It is not just about a child’s right to citizenship or inheritance; it is also about his or her right to travel and, of course, his or her rights in the event of parental separation
this House who are serious about building a progressive-left republican alternative in this country must also be serious about unity, common citizenship, mutual respect, and shared ownership and stewardship of our land. That requires building solidarity between rural and urban working people, not driving wedges between them
again thank his departmental staff. He mentioned Killarney last week and I know people who were there. Friends of mine got their citizenship and were very proud to do so. Again, I ask him pass on my thanks to all the staff.
It is important the Department continues
unclear. This looks performative. It is nothing more than what we might describe as deterrence theatre, like tightening up the process on citizenship applications or introducing restrictive rules on family reunification. These measures will only make life harder for people who are already suffering hardship and have come
towns where they live, highlighting what is going on in their country. They are our fellow citizens here - for those who have taken citizenship - and they are sharing our space. They are sharing our towns, contributing to our communities and working in our hospitals and communities, and they
family reunification only for the wealthiest of migrants. The Government has set the standard that those on welfare are somehow less worthy of citizenship. It is making people who are earning paltry sums in wages pay for substandard accommodation not as a cost-saving measure to the State
leave the tough-guy posturing at the door and an abandonment of mean-spirited efforts such as the Minister's proposed changes to citizenship and family reunification rules. The Labour Party, and I am sure others in opposition, have little faith that this approach will be taken given
locked out of our democratic process - people in hospital, people on holiday, citizens in the North, long-term residents who just cannot afford citizenship and those who have recently emigrated. All of them have a right to be heard but so many cannot vote.
We need to change
In parliamentary questions
Robert Troy
Written
Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he will provide an update on citizenship applications (details supplied). [68494/26
Rose Conway-Walsh
Written
Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration for an update on the progress to date in the determination of an application for citizenship in the case of persons (details supplied); and when the applications are expected to be finalised. [68870/26
Robert Troy
Written
Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration under the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Bill 2026, if any person who holds any period of reckonable residence on the day the act commences, continues to be assessed under the residence conditions in force on that
Eamon Scanlon
Written
Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he will provide a grandfather clause in the Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2026 to ensure that marriages entered into before 2025 remain subject to the existing three-year residency requirement for spouses of Irish
Matt Carthy
Written
were required to leave the State; the number made subject to deportation orders; the number whose subsequent applications for visas, residence permissions, citizenship or re-entry were refused, in whole or in part, on the basis of previous non-compliance with immigration permissions. [67600/26
Robert Troy
Written
Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration If any concessions under the new citizenship laws are going to be made for Belarussians, who since 2023 have been banned from applying for passport renewal in consulates in embassies, forcing them to return to Belarus
Matt Carthy
Written
Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if his Department collects or maintains data on the number or proportion of persons who acquire Irish citizenship through naturalisation and who remain resident in the State for five years, ten years and 15 years after naturalisation. [66028/26
Gary Gannon
Written
asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration further to the Government's approval of priority drafting of the Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2026, the number of applications for naturalisation received in each of the years 2021 to 2025 and to date
Gary Gannon
Written
Affairs and Migration the number of applications for naturalisation which satisfied the statutory conditions in section 15(1) of the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 1956, as amended, but which were nonetheless refused in the exercise of the Minister's discretion, in each of the past five years
Matt Carthy
Written
Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of declarations of intention to retain Irish citizenship received from naturalised Irish citizens residing outside the State in each year since 2015, in tabular form. [66030/26
Ged Nash
Written
applicant to have an alleged systemic or procedural failure independently examined, where the complaint does not concern the Minister's substantive decision on citizenship; and if there is no such mechanism, if there are plans to establish one. [64170/26
Ken O'Flynn
Written
offences or a case by case process (details supplied); the number of such cases reviewed since 7 April 2025; the number referred for citizenship revocation proceedings in that period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [64818/26
Matt Carthy
Written
Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of citizenship revocation cases initiated, completed, discontinued and currently pending in each year from 2016 to date; the grounds relied upon in each case, categorised by grounds for revocation, in tabular form
Matt Carthy
Written
citizens who have received a custodial sentence of five years or more in each year since 2016; the number in respect of whom citizenship revocation was considered; the number in respect of whom revocation proceedings were commenced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [65005/26
Matt Carthy
Written
Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of citizenship applications refused on good-character grounds in each year from 2016 to date; the number therein arising from criminal convictions, pending criminal proceedings, Garda investigations, tax matters, immigration offences, fraud, national-security
Matt Carthy
Written
Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of persons granted citizenship in each of the past five years who, at the date of application, had between five and six, six and seven, seven and eight, and more than eight years
Matt Carthy
Written
Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the level of English or Irish proficiency that he proposes applicants for citizenship will be required to demonstrate; whether this will correspond with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages; the exemptions that are being considered
Matt Carthy
Written
Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of persons granted Irish citizenship by naturalisation in each year from 2016 to date, by previous nationality; the number of applications received and refused for each nationality; the refusal rate in each case
Denise Mitchell
Written
have other disabilities which may limit them in their ability to complete the new proposed language tests as part of the revised citizenship process; and if he will make a statement on the matter [65044/26
Ruth Coppinger
Written
person who has been resident in the State for higher education that these years residing in the State are counted when applying for citizenship. [65032/26
Matt Carthy
Written
convicted of an indictable offence in Ireland in each of the past ten years, by offence category by year where possible, in which citizenship was granted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [65004/26
Matt Carthy
Written
Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of persons granted Irish citizenship by naturalisation in each of the years 2016 to 2025 and to date in 2026 who had disclosed a criminal conviction in Ireland or another jurisdiction; the number
Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin
Written
Deputy Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to provide a breakdown of the cost of each citizenship ceremony held during 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [65087/26
Michael Cahill
Written
persons who are already resident in Ireland and who have accumulated four years or more of reckonable residence under the existing five year citizenship eligibility framework; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [65105/26
Denise Mitchell
Written
place for workers already resident in Ireland who are concerned by plans to increase residency requirements to eight years in order to obtain citizenship; if the new residency rules will apply retrospectively to those already present in the State on appropriate visas or only to those
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