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Moving the goalposts

Patricia Stephenson

“A lot of people feel that they are having the rug pulled out from underneath them. They have been living here and have been contributing. … Some applicants may have been here for four years and six months. They had a pathway, a plan for their lives and suddenly that is about to change.”

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.