WHO GETS TO DECIDE IRELAND’S FUTURE — THE IRISH PEOPLE OR EVERYONE ELSE?

Are you sick and tired of feeling that Ireland’s immigration and citizenship policies are being shaped without the Irish people being asked — while petitions, campaigns and protests push for changes as if the public’s view is an afterthought?

We are seeing organised campaigns and pressure for changes to Ireland’s citizenship and immigration rules. Where is the campaign asking Irish people what WE want?

Ireland is our home. The rules made now will affect communities, housing, public services and the next generation. So shouldn’t Irish citizens have a meaningful say in what those rules should be?

WHAT SHOULD IT ACTUALLY TAKE TO BECOME AN IRISH CITIZEN?
The Government is proposing significant changes to citizenship through the Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2026. Reported proposals include raising ordinary naturalisation from five years’ residence to eight, alongside language and civics requirements, self-sufficiency conditions, tighter spouse routes, and changes concerning time spent under Ukrainian temporary protection.

Should we simply accept whatever is put in front of Cabinet? Or should we ask whether those changes go far enough, or not far enough?

Should the residency requirement be five years? Eight? Ten? Longer?

Should someone seeking Irish citizenship have to show a real understanding of:

• Irish history
• Irish culture
• the Constitution
• Ireland’s laws and democratic institutions
• the responsibilities that come with citizenship      

Should there be clearer rules on:

• English or Irish language ability
• integration
• criminal convictions and serious offending
• self-sufficiency
• compliance with immigration law
• fraud or misrepresentation in applications

What else do YOU believe should change — or stay the same?

WHO SHOULD HAVE A SAY?
Once someone is an Irish citizen, they have legal citizenship rights. That is not in dispute.

The question is different: who should have influence over setting the rules of Irish citizenship and immigration in the first place?

Should people who were not originally Irish citizens have the same influence over changing those rules as people born into Irish citizenship?

That is a debate about democratic legitimacy and citizenship status. It should be had openly.

WE HAVE BEEN ASKED BEFORE
Ireland has already put citizenship to the people.

On 11 June 2004, voters decided the Twenty-seventh Amendment. It changed the constitutional position on citizenship for people born on the island of Ireland to non-Irish parents, subject to the constitutional and legislative provisions that followed.

The result was 79.17% Yes and 20.83% No, with 59.95% turnout.

The people voted. The constitutional position changed. Legislation followed.

SHOULD WE BE ASKED AGAIN? 

DO THE IRISH PEOPLE WANT A REFERENDUM ON IMMIGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP?
Ireland has held referendums on questions that fundamentally affect the country and its future.

So why shouldn’t we be asking whether these issues deserve to be put directly to the people again?

And if enough people believe that the public should decide, then why shouldn't we demand that the question be put to the Irish people?

SHOULD THERE BE ANOTHER REFERENDUM?
YES OR NO?

YOU DECIDE.

Sign the petition and have your say.

Share it with family, friends and your community.

OUR FUTURE. OUR SAY.
Ireland’s future should not be decided without the Irish people having their say.