Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 4 December 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Citizenship Rights and DeSouza Judgment: Discussion
Ms Emma DeSouza:
I believe that the Irish Government in particular has been pursuing that for quite some time, and pressing to get this review released. The reluctance of the Home Office and the British officials to release the review is clear as they will not give us, in any freedom of information requests, or any parliamentary questions, any indication of a timeline, timeframe or terms of reference. We have been told that it is an informal review, it is not formal, and we have during that time a new Prime Minister, a new Home Secretary and potentially others again next month. I do not think that this review is going to come out. I myself pressed quite hard with it and all indications point to it being shelved with Theresa May's government.
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