The Dáil is debating a bill that would grant citizenship to anyone purely on the basis of being born on the island of Ireland.
The push comes from leftist activists and the Solidarity group in the Dáil who seek to overturn the democratic will the Irish people who voted in 2004 to remove the constitutional right to citizenship for those born to foreign parents in Ireland.
Those pushing this agenda have seized upon a rare and exceptional case where a child born in Ireland to Chinese parents faced deportation to China. The child was, of course, granted the right to remain in Ireland.
However, rather than proceeding in a case by case basis, open borders activists are now highlighting these rarities to demand birth-right citizenship.
The Minister for Justice, Charles Flanagan TD, has opposed this change to Irish law, saying in a speech to the Dáil
“The minister said that Ireland is an open democratic State that already provides many legal pathways for non-European citizens to migrate here”.
Going on to state
“Since 2010, just over 27,000 children, most born to non-EEA nationals, have become citizens of Ireland through naturalisation”.
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