Citizenship tourists 'hit maternity services'

Consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist Paul Byrne wrote to Micheál Martin in 2002 to alert him to the worsening situation caused by so-called citizenship tourists and their impact on services at the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin.

Stressing that his sole motivation was a concern for the health and well being of patients, Mr Byrne said last night that the situation has not changed in the past two years.

"The idea of my letter was to alert them to what is going on. It was a relentless increase and it is still going up. The situation that causes us the problems are the people who are flying in during the latter stages of pregnancy. These are not Filipino nurses. They are not Brazilian meat factory workers or others working in this country," he said last night.

Mr Byrne's letter from September 2002, obtained by the Irish Examiner under the Freedom of Information Act, was prompted by an incident at the time where a professional South African woman, who was pregnant with quads, arrived just 36 hours before going into premature labour.

In his letter he also said it was common knowledge that Nigerian women arriving in the latter stages of pregnancy were paying £5,000 to an agency to come here.

The increase in African patients was causing Irish patients to go to other hospitals, as they did not want to be in a minority, but were afraid to speak about it for fear of being labelled racist.

Speaking to the Irish Examiner last night, Mr Byrne said that while the number of non-national births was now evenly spread across the three maternity hospitals in Dublin, doctors were dealing with extremely difficult cases, sometimes involving HIV, TB, malaria, sickle cell disease and serious complications.

"When all this started, the textbooks of obstetrics didn't deal with problems from African countries. We have had very complex cases," he said.

The number of non-national births at the hospital has more than doubled since 2000 and as it continues to rise, Mr Byrne says a large number of cases can be ascribed to citizenship tourism.

"Anybody who says it is not happening just doesn't know what it is happening," he said.

Read more here: Irish Examiner, 28th May 2004

"This is probably a good reason for you to never get a driving license to be honest. Let's face it, this is the way it's all going to go. It's not going to take a long time. It will be illegal to drive and have fun in your car."

But relax, Elon Musk's hyperloop will enable you to get anywhere in Ireland in less than ten minutes in five to ten years time.

Here's science-man and comedian-man with the details of our future island.

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The grift never stops for Nigerians. Fake asylum seekers in 2004 granted leave to remain, given 3 bedroom house in Balbriggan, move to England 2014, come back to Ireland in 2020 during a pandemic and now expecting another house.

Also have a Social Democrats member on their case and now this Irish Times piece. They will get what they want while homeless Irish die on the streets.

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