Industry
Ireland's Eight-Year Citizenship Rule: Why It Risks Punishing the Nurses, Carers and Pharma Professionals the Country Cannot Do Without
The Government wants to raise the residency requirement for Irish citizenship from five years to eight, with language and civics tests on top. This analysis looks at who actually carries the weight of that change: the internationally trained nurses, care assistants and pharmaceutical professionals who keep Irish hospitals, nursing homes and manufacturing plants running, and how Ireland would compare with Canada, Australia and the rest of Europe.
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