Mr Ted Neville of the Immigration Control Platform, ICP, an anti-immigration pressure group, intends to stand as a candidate for Cork South Central in the next general election. Founding member of the ICP Ms Áine Ní Chonaill confirmed that she would contest a seat in Dublin South Central.
Mr Neville is calling for tighter asylum laws, and wants Ireland to opt out of the 1951 UN Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees.
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He called on the Government today to depart from international law claiming that the State is operating an "open border" asylum policy.
Under the convention, countries must process all asylum claims and cannot impose any limits on the number of asylum-seekers they accept. The ICP wants a new quota system, under which a person's asylum needs would be determined before they entered the country.
Mr Neville says the ICP was set up to "stop the invasion and colonisation of Ireland" saying Irish identity had become "diluted". Mr Neville denied that the ICP risked inciting hatred, saying that the group simply wished to spread awareness.
Ireland is the only EU state which confers automatic citizenship on all children born on the island, according to the founder of the ICP Ms Áine Ní Chonaill.
She said the group would continue to seek an amendment to the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Bill in order to revoke Irish citizenship from Irish-born children of "an illegal immigrant or failed asylum seeker".
Ms Ní Chonaill, from west Cork, refused to discuss details of how many members were involved in the group. She claimed such questions were irrelevant.
Ms Sara MacNeice of the Irish Refugee Council said today "the ICP should be aware that it holds a responsibility to act with extreme caution in light of the recent rise in serious assaults against asylum seekers."