Jerry Cowley (Mayo, Independent)
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Question 161: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason a person who has lived here since the early 1980s, whose father is employed in the health system in Ireland, who has been educated in Ireland and who works as a plastic surgeon in Ireland is unable to get her certificate of naturalisation until 2007; his views on this as the person must travel frequently with her job and as an ambassador of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11440/06]

Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)
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An application for a certificate of naturalisation from the person in question was received in the citizenship section of the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform on 26 September 2005.

The average processing time for an application for naturalisation is 24 months. It is likely, therefore, that the file will be submitted to me for decision in or around September 2007. If the person in question wishes to travel outside of the State prior to her application for naturalisation being finalised, she can travel on her current passport and apply, in advance of her departure from the State, for a re-entry visa to the visa office at 13/14 Burgh Quay, Dublin 2.