Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

I want to focus on a particular issue. Since 2005, following the passage of the racist 2004 citizenship referendum, people born in this State have not been entitled to Irish citizenship unless their parents belong to one of the categories we mentioned earlier and are not from outside the EU or whatever. Those born in 2005 or 2006 are now 14 or 15 years old and are knocking on the door of school-leaving age and the world of employment. The Tánaiste wrote to me to clarify that these people would have to apply for a work permit in the country in which they were born and have grown up. I ask the Minister to address the issue of people who were born in this country having to apply for work permits in the next few years, unless the situation is resolved. What is intended to be done about that?

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