Written answers
Wednesday, 20 September 2023
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Immigration Status
Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)
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709. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a person (details supplied) will be permitted to apply for citizenship in February 2024 rather than May 2024, as they arrived into Ireland in February 2021 where they were given the join spouse stamp at Dublin Airport and were told to register at Burgh Quay, which remained closed until May 2021 due to the pandemic, and given that if they had lived outside of Dublin, it would have been possible for them to register at their local Garda station immediately, rather than being delayed for three months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40445/23]
Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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The person concerned can use the date of their landing stamp, if their next registered immigration permission is reckonable as qualifying residency as set down in the Irish Nationality and Citizenship 1956 Act.
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