Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 4 April 2019
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality
9:00 am
Mr. Michael Kirrane:
We are seeing an increase in the number of applications from UK nationals. Of the approximately 1,000 additional applications in 2018, about half were from UK nationals applying for citizenship. They are UK nationals who perhaps have been living in Ireland for some time and are now choosing to apply for Irish citizenship.