Ms Dorothy Kellegher:

The intention for the non-EEA nationals, excluding those ones or people who have successfully gone through immigration or the refugees who have successful international protection status, and it is consistent as well with Circular 41/12 as it currently stands and that policy, is that a non-EEA national would have either five years of reckonable residency or a potential five years of reckonable residency.

Going back to the piece about the reckonable residency and how is that determined, where we have looked at it is to ensure that it would be consistent with status for citizenship.

So it is the stamps that are given by the Department of Justice. If they go towards the long-term entitlement to citizenship, then they will be the stamps that will be considered for reckonable residency.