Members of the Irish Parliament will soon address two petitions calling for Donald Trump to be barred from entering the country.
The Joint Committee on Public Oversight and Petitions, which deals with suggestions from the public regularly, is expected to address the two petitions within the next several weeks.
But the bluntly named petitions, “Ban Donald Trump from Ireland” and “Ban Donald Trump From Entering Ireland,” are unlikely to make any progress beyond being discussed by the panel made up of deputies and senators.
According to the Irish newspaper The Journal, procedural rules dictate that a petition can’t be considered if it “contains the name or names of individuals.”
The petitions come after Trump proposed temporarily banning Muslims from entering the United States, comments that came in the wake of the deadly San Bernardino, Calif., terror attack. Irish Prime Minister Edna Kenney called the proposal “not acceptable.”
Last month, the United Kingdom responded to a petition to ban Trump that garnered more than half-a-million signatures, by saying a debate would be set in late January.
