Planned changes to Irish citizenship requirements will ensure that new citizens have an “understanding” of the country and its values, the Taoiseach has said.

How about you fleece them in taxes, make them pay back the bailout money, let them wait for years for an operation and tell them they will be renting for the rest of their lives until the council gives them a tent at 65. Thats an understanding of what it is to be Irish.

An understanding and an appreciation are two very different things because the majority of new citizens have very little appreciation but a great understanding of all of their 'entitlements'.

This was a "far right" idea not so long ago.

Remember RIAD BOUCHAKER ! Algerian with no english language,never worked,no address ,and he got citizenship !!! He had no english !! This Gov are way too late with this.

Does he mean not r*pe women and children.. that understanding??

It's a case of saying the door is open after the horse is bolted, a pot is still a pot at the end of day.

Most of the immigrants already here don't care about our country, values, culture, traditions or people, some of them still can't even speak English after years of been here

Make them wait 3 years for an operation. The irish understand that. We also understand waiting 5 months to get an NCT 6 weeks for a passport The list goes on. Ireland is a shithole , a failing state and this goone needs to be gone.

Clowns slightly closing the gate after years of a stampede galloping through

Too late. The problem with FF is once they get elected, they abandon their mandate and very weakily do whatever the EU tells them to do.

Now stop paying them social welfare benefits. It is fraud

Fuck off you muppet. ireland is destroyed by the influx of foreigners that live off the state and in properties that should be for the next generation irish, instalead of useless sponging IP immigrants that are playing the system and walking in the working irish people. You have bent over snd took it up the arse from Europe and you and the other muppets in government have sat back and watched the fabric of irish society being destroyed and unrecognisable from past generations.

More lies. A bit like Slimy Harris coming out this morning saying he was making changes to tax for those that get up early. Heard it all before. And ended up being lies. These cunts aren't hated enough. But their time is fast approaching

The horse is gone..then this snake well knows and understands that.

Rats change their tune to suit themselves.

This is not enough. There needs to be mass deportations of 1000s and 1000s of useless fake asylum seekers and those coming here on the many scams attached to the so-called ''legal immigration'' route.

Too little too late. A rotten traitor.

If you were proper journalists you'd be asking him why taxpayers funded migrant rights NGO's are objecting to tougher good character and deeper criminal background checks. But you aren't real journalists, are you?

I presume this only relates to people working here and the usual illegal unvetted males can waltz in with no id and get put up for life with no questions asked?

Its a bit late now. The rare time i visit any of the towns around me they don't look like the towns i grew up in. More then half not Irish, and i don't think people that force their women to wear full face coverings give a damn about our culture

This feels a bit like damage control or a knock on effect from what happened in the German election.

The ability to speak fluent Irish should be essential for all asylum seekers. Laghdóidh sin an fórsa ionraidh.

Does that mean those being processed today have no understanding?

Christ, why didn't they do this a few years ago 🤷😭

Did he call us racist for these thoughts a while ago

30% on the social housing waiting list in County Louth are foreign nationals. This suggests if multiculturalism is working 30% of the Louth support at Croke Park for the recent semi final with Mayo should have been non Irish. The reality was more like 0% non Irish national.

He obviously doesn't even have "an understanding of the country and its values".

Does that apply to @EbunJoseph1 who thinks she “inherited” Ireland? Michael could do with a recap

Meanwhile ...

What is Ireland as a country? What's it's values? Do enlighten us Michael? Cause im pretty sure youve a VERY different view, interpretation, definition than the majority of the native Irish people have of what Ireland is as a country & it's values are.

So the hundreds of thousands already here have zero understanding of the country?

☘️Too little,too late from incompetent buffoons who may within a short period of time see a similar turn from traditional political party’s to far right party’s like the AFD in Germany. The people have taken enough of politically blind migration into Ireland. ☘️

😅😂 #regimefrauds

He needs the go much further. Only Irish indigenous should be allowed to buy property in Ireland.

Absolute disgraceful leadership & reckless government, money, greed& the “big job in Europe is the driving force