Declan Breathnach (Louth, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

A Programme for a Partnership Government contains an explicit provision guaranteeing the Good Friday Agreement in all its parts. The decision of the Upper Tribunal in the United Kingdom in the DeSouza case in October highlighted that the foundational birthright guarantee, that is, the right of citizens of Northern Ireland to identify and be accepted as British or Irish or both, was not reflected in British domestic law, policy or practice. The British Government's rationale, which was accepted by the tribunal, is divisive and worrying because it interprets the Good Friday Agreement as concerning only one's identity, not an entitlement to choose one's citizenship. What progress has the Tanáiste made in urging the British Government to give domestic legal effect immediately to the birthright provisions contained in the Good Friday Agreement?

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