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Moving the goalposts

Matt Carthy

“The transitional arrangements also need to be considered for those who have established their lives here under the existing rules and had legitimate expectations about when they would qualify for citizenship based on their reckonable residence.”

Matt CarthyTD for Cavan-Monaghan · Sinn FéinIn the Dáil on 30 September 2026: read it in the official record ↗On the board: No position on 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.