The Irish Nationality and Citizenship Acts provide for the issuing of certificates of nationality where the Minister or a consular official is satisfied that the person in question is an Irish citizen by birth, descent or marriage. For the purposes of this debate, I will leave aside the question of honorary citizenship, to which the Senator referred, which is conferred by the President on the advice of the Government. Some ministerial or consular official has to determine whether any of these situations are relevant to the incident case, but he must do so by reference to the tightly defined statutory regime in sections 6, 7 and 8 of the amended 1956 Act, which covers these cases and only on production of evidence that brings the person in question within the ambit of those sections. The issuing of certificates of nationality is, then, not strictly relevant to the issue we are trying to address here because, first, it does not arise in the context of naturalisation and, second, it is a mere consequence of citizenship acquired on the basis of statutory or constitutional entitlement which has no investment-based element.