It is important to put on record the requirements an applicant for naturalisation must meet. They must be of full age and of good character, they must have a period of one year's continuous residence in the State immediately before the date of the application and, during the eight years preceding that application, they must have had a total residence in the State amounting to four years. They must intend in good faith to continue to reside in the State after naturalisation and they must have made, either before a justice of the District Court in open court or in such manner as the Minister, for special reasons, allows, a declaration in the prescribed manner of fidelity to the nation and loyalty to the State. I presume it is the latter issue that Senator Quinn may be addressing – the special reasons.