Minister may be unable to appeal citizenship ruling, court told

, an Australian man who brought the case, and by Alex Caffrey BL, for the State, the sides wanted it put back for a week.

In opposing Mr Jones’ challenge to the Minister for Justice’s refusal of his citizenship application, the State had not argued that the words “continuous residence” in Section 15.1.c of the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 2015 means an applicant for citizenship must have unbroken residence in the State for a year.

He noted section 15.1 provides, on receipt of an application for a certificate of naturalisation, the Minister “may, in his absolute discretion, grant the application if satisfied that the applicant has had a period of one year’s continuous residence in the State immediately before the date of the application”.

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