Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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1527. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people who have been granted Irish citizenship in each of the years since 2020 who have previously been subject to a deportation order, that was revoked or not executed, in tabular form. [18807/25]

Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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In order to qualify for citizenship by naturalisation applicants are generally required to have 5 years legal reckonable residence in the State in the nine years prior to making an application; there are certain exception, such as for spouses of Irish nationals where the requirement is 3 years. In all cases, the final 12 months must be continuous legal residence in the State with up to 70 days allowed to facilitate foreign travel for business family or holiday purposes.

A person in respect of whom a Deportation Order remains in force will not meet the relevant requirements for naturalisation.

The specific information regarding the number of individuals who have been granted citizenship and in respect of whom a Deportation Order was previously revoked is not held in a manner that is readily determined without the manual examination of a significant number of files. It should be noted, that any individual in respect of whom a Deportation Order has been revoked would still be required to apply for, be given and maintain an immigration permission for the relevant period of reckonable residence; the period of time during which a Deportation Order has been in place cannot be considered as part of the period of reckonable residence.