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Conor Sheehan

“If they were to up sticks and leave, our health service could potentially collapse. Citizenship should not depend on income, because the income threshold will disproportionately affect people in lower paid but valuable employment – such as care workers; people whose jobs we could not fill if they did not do them – and also people with disabilities.”

Conor SheehanTD for Limerick City · Labour PartyIn the Dáil on 30 September 2026: read it in the official record ↗On the board: Against the eight years

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Five years was the promise.

People came to Ireland on the rule of five years and planned their lives on it. The Government wants eight, for them too, and has published no reason why.