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Govt Planning Referendum to End Citizenship Rights

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Wednesday March 10, 2004 18:57

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Birth Right to Citizenship to go if FF-PD vote passes

FF-PD Government are planning a referndum to amend the constitution to remove citizenship rights from those born in Ireland. Instead citizenship will be decided by law.

Currently Citizens are all those born in the island of Ireland, its islands, and seas. AND all those that qualify under law (such as those resident for a certain period, children and grandchildren of irish born citizens, those married to citizens for a period of time, etc)

In Britain the birthright to citizenship was removed. Now British born people must have a parent that is deemed to be "British" or resident. If this is passed the Government will probably end the right of spouses, children, grandchildren and residents to get citizenship automatically under law.

Under the constitution citizenship cannot be removed from Irish born citizens. However it can be removed from those who qualify under law. So if this referendum is passed we will see the situation where your citizenship can now be removed from Irish born people as they will only qualify under law.

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Comments (35 of 35)

#	Title	Author	Date
1	Where to Labour, Greens, Sinn Fein stand	Angry Liberal	Wed Mar 10, 2004 19:19
2	Labour will "not vigourously oppose" the proposal	Labour Watcher	Wed Mar 10, 2004 19:28
3	sooner than you think	x	Wed Mar 10, 2004 21:06
4	.	j26	Wed Mar 10, 2004 22:25
5	Realism at last	omega supreme	Wed Mar 10, 2004 23:23
6	Wikipedia defines facism as....	J26	Wed Mar 10, 2004 23:43
7	.	Killian Forde	Thu Mar 11, 2004 00:40
8	re. fascist states	steve	Thu Mar 11, 2004 01:19
9	Fear factory productions: racism under referendum	soundmigration	Thu Mar 11, 2004 02:27
10	re:facist states	J26	Thu Mar 11, 2004 03:59
11	Now that's what I call Nazi	kokomero	Thu Mar 11, 2004 09:55
12	Thats democracy	RED BHOY	Thu Mar 11, 2004 10:04
13	But if they dont get the "right" result	Devoto	Thu Mar 11, 2004 10:37
14	Democracy or wha'?	Yossarian	Thu Mar 11, 2004 12:13
15	USI Congress	USI member	Thu Mar 11, 2004 14:45
16	This proposition	jeff	Thu Mar 11, 2004 14:49
17	Where do the Labour Party stand?	Labour?	Thu Mar 11, 2004 15:01
18	Here is Labour's position (from their website)	Labour's Position	Thu Mar 11, 2004 15:23
19	Gov proposal for constitutional amendment 'opportunistic'	rayo	Thu Mar 11, 2004 16:17
20	Joe Costello on RTE	Allen	Thu Mar 11, 2004 16:20
21	Liar.	AngryLiberal	Thu Mar 11, 2004 17:11
22	Labour are a disaster	Angry Authoritarian Trot	Thu Mar 11, 2004 18:05
23	hmmm?	hmmm	Thu Mar 11, 2004 18:20
24	Unite and Defeat Racist Referendum Proposal	John Meehan	Thu Mar 11, 2004 18:38
25	Race Card	ucd	Thu Mar 11, 2004 21:20
26	Wake up, SInn Fein	Dick Dowling	Fri Mar 12, 2004 00:40
27	Dick	One world	Fri Mar 12, 2004 04:43
28	so...	Jimi Kavanagh	Fri Mar 12, 2004 09:49
29	UCD	observer	Fri Mar 12, 2004 14:00
30	Good Idea	Cleaver	Fri Mar 12, 2004 17:31
31	John Meehan	An Craoibhin Aoibhinn	Fri Mar 12, 2004 17:46
32	An Craoibhin Aoibhinn	The not so Pleasant little branch	Fri Mar 12, 2004 18:01
33	Irish democracy	Disobedient Voter	Sun Mar 14, 2004 01:04
34	commie dogma	omega supreme	Sun Mar 14, 2004 20:33
35	from how it started to the praise it raised-	-	Thu Jul 15, 2004 15:06

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