Yet another example of disgraceful conduct against Irish Citizens by Justice and Equality Irish Public servants.
If this couple had been EU citizens, they would have a right to have their
dependent elderly parents stay with them.
Very similar to the John Moylan case.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ire ... 48299.html
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Couple may challenge residency rights ruling
Fri, Jul 01, 2011
AN ELDERLY and ill South African couple have secured High Court permission to challenge a decision refusing them residency rights after their Irish citizen daughter and her husband offered to allow them live here with them.
Mr Justice Gerard Hogan said the refusal of the Minister for Justice to grant permission to Leon (72) and Margaret (68) Lemiere to reside here represented a disproportionate response to the constitutional family rights of their daughter, Desiree O’Leary.
The judge granted the couple, their daughter and son-in-law permission to bring judicial review proceedings challenging that decision.
At the heart of the case was the extent to which the relationship between adult parents and an adult child is protected by Article 41 of the Constitution which guarantees to protect the family, the judge said. This had implications for the State’s immigration policy.
Providing support for parents in advancing years is one dimension of Article 41.1.1, which describes the family as “a moral institutionâ€
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