stateless.137 In light of this judgment new legislative provisions for the revocation of certificates of naturalisation will have to be adopted.138 The Department of Justice when contacted as part of this study, indicated that the Minister for Justice is considering the implications of the Supreme Court judgment.139 As outlined above, only some aspects of the 1956 Act as amended concerned with renunciation, loss and revocation of citizenship are broadly in line with the relevant requirements of the 1961 Convention. There remains scope for the introduction of greater safeguards, both legal and in practice, and UNHCR would advocate, in particular, for the removal of the 1961 Convention reservation on loss of citizenship and for the introduction of a provision preventing, as a general principle, the revocation of citizenship where this would render a person statelessness. 36 137 Supreme Court, Damache v Minister for Justice and Equality, Ireland and the Attorney General, 10 February 2021, available at: https://bit.ly/3Hv9tMk p.86. 138 Irish Legal News, Legislation required before revocation of citizenship can take place again, 11 February 2021, available at: https://bit.ly/3FTvS4N 139 Correspondence with the Citizenship Unit, ISD, Department of Justice, January 2022; ESRI, Research Series Number 116, Pathways to Citizenship through Naturalisation in Ireland, December 2020, available at: https://www.esri.ie/system/files/publications/RS116_2.pdf Mapping Statelessness in Ireland