Dan Neville (Limerick West, Fine Gael)
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Question 169: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when an application for residency under the Irish born child scheme will be processed for a person, details supplied, in County Limerick. [21653/05]

Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)
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An application for permission to remain in the State under the revised arrangements announced by me on 15 January 2005 for the processing of applications from the non-national parents of Irish born children born before 1 January 2005 was received from the person concerned on 9 March 2005.

Some 18,000 applications were received under the revised arrangements and more than 7,300 have been processed to date. Given the number of applications still to be processed, it will be some weeks before the processing of the person's application will be completed.