Niall Ó Donnghaile (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am happy to change my language around that. With respect, this is not an issue of semantics. It is an issue of practical legislative mechanisms that could allow for that.

I have raised the issue of citizenship with the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality at two different committees recently. I am resident in the North. I retain my Irish citizenship under the Good Friday Agreement and, therefore, retain my EU citizenship. Am I then, as I live in the North post-Brexit and Article 50, entitled to the same rights and entitlements in terms of work and human rights? I appreciate this is an unknown to some degree. Am I entitled to access European protections and laws that would apply to me as an Irish citizen who lives in the North? That is an obvious potential subversion of the Good Friday Agreement and the rights it affords to me and many other people who are Irish citizens, and an increasing number of Irish citizens, who live in the North. The terms "special status" was mentioned in the press. I am a remainer and I think the North should remain.