TD Mick Barry wants Irish citizenship for any illegal minor who has been in Ireland for three years

TD Mick Barry was discussing a birth-right citizenship bill he wants to get through the Dáil. The bill he explained would also grant citizenship to illegals under 18 who have been in Ireland for three years or more. This strategy centred around children, he explains, would enable their parents to stay too.

"[The bill also says] if you are a young person and you have been resident in the state for more than three years then you have an entitlement to Irish citizenship...I think there is also a question of strategy and the best way to get from A to B, because in effect if undocumented children — children who don't have papers — are entitled to Irish citizenship, well then in practice their families and their parents will have a fair broader range of entitlements, won't be able to be deported and so on and so forth so I think this is quite an effective way of advancing that wider struggle."

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