All of these protocols deal with issues of great individual, public and national importance. There are reasonable grounds for believing Protocols Nos. 4 and 7 are extremely germane to the whole series of complex issues which still remain around citizenship in this country. These include issues such as whether the expulsion of a parental figure without Irish citizenship is a de facto expulsion of the child who has citizenship; and whether resident aliens entering or intending to enter into a meaningful relationship with an Irish citizen have protection from expulsion and wrongful conviction or otherwise.