Yeah the qualification criteria are undefined, and some criteria are easily gamed, so this ultimately their criteria is going to probably be some combination of:

- Those who have connections

- Those who have an immutable trait that puts them in a minority (after all, there's not enough money / slots for a majority to qualify)

Which makes this a highly political program no matter how you look at it.

There's 1 day a year in the US where everyone is Irish. It's off the hook.

We're probably more Irish than a lot of the "new Irish" people rorting their system in schemes like this