As the Deputy will recall, following a Referendum of the Irish people, the 27th amendment to the Constitution changed the situation in relation to entitlement to Irish Citizenship.
As a result of this, Section 6 of the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 1956 was amended by the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act, 2004. The changes came into effect on 1st January 2005. As and from that date a person born in the island of Ireland is not entitled to be an Irish citizen, unless that person's parents have been resident in the island of Ireland for a total of three years during the four years preceding that person's birth. Section 4 of the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act, 2004 excludes the residence of parents in the asylum process at the time of the birth of the child from being reckonable for this purpose.
The subsequent result of the parents' asylum application, whether granted or refused, does not change the citizenship status of the child.