Ms Una Boyd:

It is essentially the UN Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons. A person is stateless when under operation of the law he or she cannot become a citizen so in this scenario he or she would have, under operation of the law, access to two citizenships, so it would not be a situation of statelessness. Statelessness is really intended for people who, under operation of the law cannot access a citizenship and it is interpreted by the UK itself quite narrowly. We would say that a position - the Irish legislation being a very good example - where a person has an entitlement under operation of the law to a citizenship, and in this case, to two citizenships, he or she would not be considered stateless.