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Dáil Éireann debate, 25 October 1994: Oral Answers - Citizenship Applications (Questions 34, 45, 51, 57, 58, 69, 72, 83, 87, 88, 89, 101, 178)

Houses of the Oireachtas · Minister for Justice (Máire Geoghegan-Quinn) · Government · 25 Oct 1994 · Ireland

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What the document holds

Dáil oral answers (13 questions taken together) on investment-linked naturalisation, 25 Oct 1994: Government-approved terms of reference for the advisory group (IR£1m net per applicant, residence kept 5 years, 60 days in 2 years, 7-year loans, Forfás monitoring); Government decision to legislate; Attorney General advice on 29 applications approved in principle; approvals 1992-94 (39, corrected 1992 figure 20, 25 low-interest loans, 2 loans plus shares, 3 forestry); 7 granted in 1994 to June; 1 approved since 1 June 1994; 22 received in 1994; former working rule of about IR£500,000. Supplementary questions from deputies (no new figures). One approved case is described (IR£1m investment in a Co. Limerick company, about 100 jobs saved and 82 to be created): single-case figures kept in notes, not as programme rows. Rows already in the data (20, 39, 25, 29, 22, terms, ToR event) were not duplicated.

What it supports

14 rows on this site come from this document. Each one opens with the page and the exact words.

9 numbers1 programme2 rules2 events

Other documents give different figures in 1 case involving this one. Both are kept.

About the document

What it covers 1994 terms of reference (IR£1m), earlier working rules (about IR£500,000), applications approved 1992-June 1994 and how many were soft loans, corrected 1992 figure, 1994 applications received

Notes Oireachtas open-data XML (Akoma Ntoso) of the official Dáil report; the oireachtas.ie web page is behind a CAPTCHA, so the XML from data.oireachtas.ie was stored instead. Same text as the Official Report.

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