Lynn Ruane (Independent) | Oireachtas source

We think of the number of people in direct provision, the delay in this and their access to the right to family life and to pursue all of this if they want to travel abroad. Let us imagine for a moment a delay in the naturalisation process of one intended non-biological parent. Under the guardianship process of the other intended non-biological parent would the child have automatic citizenship? Would this be the case if the biological father was still going through the naturalisation process but the parentage of the other non-biological parent was processed first? Would the child be afforded citizenship on the basis of the non-biological intended parent being processed afterwards?