Willie O'Dea (Limerick East, Fianna Fail)

New citizens have the right to reside within the EU and their parents and, possibly, other relatives can apply to reside in the EU on that basis. They may be entitled to so reside depending on the law of each individual member state. It is even more bizarre that when those children reach child-bearing age, they can, in turn, confer EU citizenship on their children. Therefore, people who are at three or even four removes from Ireland and Europe can become Irish and, consequently, EU citizens.

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