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Patricia Stephenson

“However, I do not know what the problem is and maybe the Minister of State can outline what it is. What emergency are we responding to with this legislation? … All of our policy-making should be based on evidence and I am not seeing the evidence upon which this change was made.”

Patricia StephensonSenator, Labour Panel · Social DemocratsIn the Seanad on 24 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.