New Minister of Children must examine the State's position to Irish born children.

14 Mar 2011

Irish Citizen Children
One of the first tasks of the new Minister for Justice will be to decide the State's attitude to the right of Irish children born to non-EU parents to live in Ireland. The European Court of Justice (ECJ), whose decisions are binding on Ireland, has ruled that the non-EU parents of an EU citizen child must be allowed to live and work in the EU state of which the child is a citizen, if the child would otherwise be deprived of his or her citizen's rights. Until 2005, any child born in Ireland was automatically an Irish citizen. The Constitution was changed in 2004 and legislation was enacted a year later to ensure a child born here can become a citizen only if at least one parent is Irish or has lived here for a number of years. Irish Times Monday 14 March 2011 Read More