The Call:  UAR therefore calls on the Minister for Justice and the Oireachtas to clarify the following points: • The Bill justifies the increase from 5 to 8 years as a means to "establish a proportionate timeline that encourages steady economic and social integration before naturalisation." We request an in-depth explanation of why 8 years is considered necessary and why 5 years of lawful residence, tax contributions, community participation and family life are no longer sufficient evidence of integration. • The Bill allows the Minister for Justice to revoke citizenship on the basis of ‘national security.’ We have heard from Irish residents who are worried that such removals may be conducted against political dissenters, like the reprisals we have seen against pro-Palestine activists in the USA.  We request an explanation of what falls under ‘national security,’ and how the Minister of Justice intends to apply this provision of the Bill.  • Subsections 15(3)(a) and 15(3)(b) require that the naturalisation applicant, at the time of the application, to be in receipt of a ‘minimum’ level of income and to have not received social welfare for a period of two years. Given that migrants, and particularly vulnerable asylum seekers, often face labour restrictions that limit their income, and given that Ireland is experiencing a cost of living crisis in which 70% of young Irish adults are considering economic emigration, we find this provision of the Bill disturbing. We request clarification of the ‘minimum’ income required of naturalisation applicants and an explanation of how the government plans to support migrants in achieving economic stability in Ireland.  We request an answer to these questions in writing.  To ensure that a full explanation is delivered, including to any additional questions arising from the government’s written reply, we request that the Public Petition Committee host a public meeting on the matter with representatives of the Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration, and members of the Public Petition and Ombudsman Committee. We request that this meeting be broadcast on the Oireachtas channel, and that the minutes of that meeting be brought into the Dáil for possible further debate. Sincerely, United Against Racism and supporters.

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We call on the Board of the National St. Patrick's Festival to name musician Ben Haggerty — known worldwide as Macklemore — as Grand Marshal of the 2027 St. Patrick's Day Parade in Dublin. Macklemore has spoken proudly and publicly about his Irish heritage, connecting his family's story to the broader story of the Irish diaspora. He has used his platform not just to celebrate that identity, but to live out values many in Ireland hold dear: solidarity with the oppressed and a willingness to speak plainly about injustice, even when it's unpopular. Since October 2023, Macklemore has been one of the most visible artists in the world willing to speak out on the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. He released "Hind's Hall," donated proceeds to humanitarian relief, and has consistently used interviews and performances to draw attention to the human cost of the conflict — actions that cost him commercially and professionally at points in his career. Ireland has a long history of solidarity with Palestine, rooted in its own experience of colonisation and partition. Naming Macklemore as Grand Marshal would be a fitting way to honour an artist whose Irish-American identity and moral courage reflect values central to Irish identity itself: standing with the powerless against the powerful. We ask the Board to recognise this by naming Macklemore Grand Marshal of the 2027 Dublin St. Patrick's Day Parade.

No evidence has been offered for the eight-year figure. The Department has not published research, has not conducted an impact assessment, and has not identified what problem in the current system this is meant to solve. Organisations working with migrant communities said so publicly within a day of the announcement. A three-year extension to the citizenship pathway of every lawful resident in the State is not a technical adjustment, and it has been proposed without a stated basis. Thousands of people came to Ireland lawfully, under rules the State set. Nurses and doctors keeping wards open, care workers, engineers, hospitality staff, researchers. They planned their lives — mortgages, children's schooling, career decisions — around a five-year pathway. Moving that line to eight years after they arrived changes the terms of an agreement they have already kept. The Department says the number of new citizens rose sharply. It did. But no eligibility rule was loosened in that period. What changed was processing speed: the Department's own figures show application processing times fell from 15 months in 2023 to 8 months in 2024 following digitisation. A backlog being cleared is not evidence that the rules are too generous. The Department also says this aligns Ireland with other EU states. Germany reduced its standard naturalisation requirement from eight years to five in 2024 — the OECD records that the stated aim was to raise citizenship uptake and make Germany more attractive to foreign talent. France requires five years, reduced to two for graduates of French universities. The EU Long-Term Residence Directive itself sets a five-year threshold. German law counts time spent in the country as a student in full; Ireland's Stamp 2 does not count at all. Eight years would place Ireland above Germany and France, not alongside them. Where research does exist, it points the other way. The OECD's own study of naturalisation found a clear positive effect of citizenship on labour market integration, particularly on access to higher-skilled and better-paid work. When Canada extended its residence requirement by a single year, one study found wages among naturalised men fell by 11%. The Department has produced no comparable analysis of what three additional years would cost. Meanwhile, the fastest-growing route to Irish citizenship is untouched by this Bill. Applications to the Foreign Births Register from US residents rose from 11,601 in 2024 to 18,910 in 2025 — a 63% increase in a single year, the highest since digital records began. That route carries no residence requirement whatsoever. If rising numbers are the problem, this Bill does not address them. It addresses only the people who are already here, working and paying tax. We are not asking the Government to abandon reform. We are asking it not to apply new rules retrospectively to people who have already spent years meeting the old ones.

The draft Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2026 proposes to raise the qualifying period for spouses of Irish citizens from three years to five. It would require five years of marriage and five years of residence in the State, including two years of continuous residence immediately before applying. The shorter period for spouses of Irish citizens is not a loophole. It exists because an Irish citizen building a family with a foreign spouse has a special stake in the future of this country. That distinction has been recognised in Irish law for decades and no case has been made publicly for removing it now. This change falls hardest on a specific group. A very large number of people left Ireland over the past decade because they could not afford to live here. Rents were beyond reach and buying was not an option. Many of us met and married our partners abroad. Some of us are now coming home, in many cases into Healthcare and Construction jobs the State says it needs to fill. Adding years to how long it takes our spouses to settle is a further cost imposed on people who already carried the cost of that failure once.  For many of us the plan was to start a family once our spouse's status was settled rather than while it still depended on annual renewals. Adding two years to that wait moves a decision that cannot always be moved, particularly for couples already in their thirties. Irish Citizens who made irreversible decisions based on published law should not be caught by a change made after the fact. We are asking Minister O'Callaghan to retain the three year period for spouses of Irish citizens. The Bill has been referred to the Oireachtas Justice Committee for scrutiny, which means the text is not final. There is still time to change it.

On 24th October 2011, Irish citizen and hospice worker Celia de Jesus lost her life during a major flood event in Dublin. Unable to exit her basement flat as floodwater quickly rose at her door, she was trapped and drowned. In his report, the Dublin District Coroner of the time argue that Celia de Jesus drowned “as a result of a surge of water and flooding over a short period of time following two days of heavy rain”, reaching a final verdict of “death by misadventure”. However, extensive research into the tragic event reveals that the coroner report omits several pieces of evidence clearly challenging the conclusion of the report. Two of the main pieces of evidence left out of the report are as follows: • EVIDENCE 1: Celia de Jesus’s landlord had not received planning permission to divide the basement of his property into two rental units. Celia de Jesus was therefore renting an unauthorised basement flat. Furthermore, while located in a well-known flood-prone area, the basement flat had only one means of exit, the entrance door. All windows of the flat were blocked with metal bars. When Celia de Jesus was unable to open her entrance door for unknown reasons, she had no other means of exit at her disposal and was trapped. These pieces of evidence are never explicitly mentioned in the report and never outlined as a major cause of the tragic death. Instead, the claim is made that the works to divide the basement into two rental units (“appear to”) precede the Building Control Act 1990 and that, as a result, they shall be deemed to have been permitted. However, such a legal technicality cannot justify entertaining a misleading account of the tragic death. • EVIDENCE 2: In the coroner report, a list of planning applications submitted for the property in which Celia de Jesus died, both granted and refused, is provided. However, one planning application, dated 2009 and refused, is not included in the list. In this planning application addressed to Dublin City Council, it is stated that the property in which Celia de Jesus lived and died is “not of a habitable standard” (architect report, planning application 3066/09). Despite such a concerning statement, the issue failed to be addressed, which constituted another significant enabler of the tragic event. Following the tragic event and until now, various state and local government agencies, among them Dublin City Council, South Dublin County Council and the Office of Public Works, have actively sustained the misleading account of Celia de Jesus’s death in reports and during public meetings. Instead of mentioning the planning breach and institutional failure that led to the tragic death, they consistently and unliterally blamed the flood. The misleading account was widely relayed in the local and national press and among local communities. As we are now approaching the fifteenth anniversary of the tragic death, we ask Dublin City Council, South Dublin County Council, the Office of Public Works and the Minister for Justice to take the following actions as a matter of urgency: • ACTION 1: Issue a public statement explaining the full circumstances of the death of Celia de Jesus based on all available evidence • ACTION 2: Issue a public apology for having sustained a misleading account of the tragic death • ACTION 3: Request an immediate review of the coroner report and of its final verdict Please sign the petition to support these demands and share as widely as you can thank you!

Children spend a huge proportion of their lives in classrooms. They should not have to breathe poorly ventilated, unfiltered, rebreathed air for six hours a day when practical solutions exist. COVID has not disappeared. Reinfections continue, and a proportion of children and adults (16% according HSE FADA report, 15-53% according to HIQA's review of international evidence, 16% according to Mass General Brigham study, 2026, 27% of healthcare workers according to NHS REACH-OUT study, 2026) develop Long COVID — sometimes with disabling symptoms. Due to the lack of information on long Covid in Ireland, much of this harm is going undiagnosed or is not attributed to the real cause, COVID-19 infection. The WHO, the CDC, the OECD and other international organizations continue to warn about Long COVID, including its impact on children, yet public awareness in Ireland remains remarkably low. Clean indoor air is one of the few interventions that can protect everyone without requiring individual behaviour. Good ventilation and appropriately sized HEPA filtration reduce exposure to airborne infectious particles while also helping to reduce pollutants, allergens and particulate matter. Other places are already acting. Schools in London, parts of the United States, Canada, Australia and elsewhere have introduced filtration, air-quality monitoring or wider clean-air programmes. Ireland announced €62 million for school ventilation improvements and HEPA filtration in December 2021, yet HEPA filtration is still not standard in Irish classrooms. This is also about the right to honest public-health information. Parents should be given clear, current information about airborne transmission, Long COVID, women and girls being at greater risk of Long COVID, reinfection and the potential longer-term consequences of infection so that they can make informed decisions for their families. The information vacuum on the reality of Long COVID and the huge burden it puts on the healthcare system is being filled by racist, antivax conspiracy theorists. Clean Indoor Air will save lives and improve the health and wellbeing of children today and for generations to come. The infrastructure we put in place now will protect pupils and teachers from COVID, influenza and many other airborne infections, while improving the everyday quality of the air they breathe.  Ireland entered the pandemic with the 4th highest rate of asthma in the world with 1 in 5 children suffering and as an outlier in the EU with rising deaths from asthma. It is an abomination that the government decided against making HEPA filters standard in classrooms when faced with COVID-19, and we feel it is an insult to our intelligence and an exercise in gaslighting when politicians and media discuss issues such as "alarming rates of absenteeism" and "record breaking hospital overcrowding", while completely ignoring the reality of long COVID. We know how to make indoor air cleaner. We know how to reduce airborne transmission. Parents deserve accurate information about the risks. What is missing is the political will to act. Please join us in asking the Government to make clean air and honest public-health information a basic standard for every child in Ireland.

We should support this because deporting someone who may face persecution or torture for their political activism is not just an immigration issue but a question of human rights and Ireland’s responsibility under international law. If there is credible evidence that Sami could be at risk in Türkiye, Ireland should ensure that he is not returned to a situation where he could be harmed. Standing up for him also means defending the principle that political dissent should not be criminalised or punished through deportation. This is about making sure Ireland’s asylum and human-rights commitments are applied consistently, regardless of who the person is.

The educational  and administrative systems in Gaza have broken down and it is impossible for some students to complete every detail in their visa applications. These students have been accepted by Irish universities. They are the people that will be needed to help rebuild the physical and administrative systems in Gaza, if that is ever possible. The Department of Justice can be guided by the applications offices in the different universities and automatically give visa to those students from war-torn Gaza, who have been accepted. We urge you to intervene immediately, and ensure these students can avail of the educational opportunities they, and their communities in Gaza need.

When the Irish Government has a surplus of money, ie, they have taken in more tax money than they have spent, that money does not just sit in a bank account, it in invested into the global stock market by the state agency, NTMA.  It was reported recently that at least 5 companies that Irish Tax payer money has been invested in, have been named as part of the UN Special rapporteurs list of companies that are complicit in genocide.  The three main companies involved are Palantir, who's Military AI has been "Battle tested" in Gaza, Air BnB who rent out illegally occupied Palestinian homes within the West bank and a telecommunications company who provide Phone and Internet services to illegal Israeli settlers.  The Irish Government have been very outspoken in relation to the Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people, however their actions do not match their words. The Government have refused to include services as part of the occupied territories bill, which is not surprising as they have invested OUR tax money into those same services.  We the undersigned are calling on this government to do the right thing and divest any and all Irish tax payer moneys from Genocide. 

Other people should join me in this campaigne because there has been many issues lately with the tullamore skate scene as the park is an unsafe place and the skatepark no longer feels like a fun place to learn to skate there is many skaters in tullamore and only one skatepark is no longer enough

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