Seanad debates
Wednesday, 22 October 2003
Irish Nationality and Citizenship and Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2003: Second Stage.
10:30 am
Jim Walsh (Fianna Fail)
Not particularly. We can sometimes become holier than thou in the manner in which we address such matters. I feel some revulsion at that. Senator Quinn has rightly pointed out that it is the ministerial discretion to issue certificates of naturalisation rather than the criteria that he takes issue with. I do not think he has any difficulty with Irish descent. It is the question of "Irish association" that he fingers as the difficulty.
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