Trevor Ó Clochartaigh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

We are teasing it out ourselves and are having ongoing discussions based on the options paper. We are considering the question of the qualification for citizenship, for example, via passport. A part of our difficulty is that the register sits with the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, which means that embassies and consulates could not be used in the registration process.