Ms Oonagh McPhillips:

The Deputy asked about citizenship. If he likes, I can give him those numbers. There were 17,188 applications in 2022. In 2023, there were 22,500 applications. We made 15,000 decisions in 2022 and 20,000 in 2023. The efficiency levels are going up. One of the features of that is that we significantly increased our output and ceremonies in 2023. The team organised 15 ceremonies in 2023 to cover 13,700 people, whereas that number in 2022 was 4,300 in six ceremonies. The Deputy can see that we can have greater throughput the more of those we have. The vast bulk of citizenship applications are within the last two years.