Ruth Coppinger (Dublin West, Solidarity)
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232. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of entries on the foreign births register in each of the years 2014 to 2016, and to date in 2017. [50293/17]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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An application for Irish citizenship through Foreign Births Registration (FBR) can be submitted by any person with a grandparent born in any part of Ireland or by any person whose parent received Irish citizenship prior to the birth of the applicant. The number of new entries made in the Foreign Births Register for the years 2014 to 2016, and to date in 2017 are:

2014: 5,743

2015: 5,588

2016: 8,161

2017 to date: 16,655.