Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 80: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when the updated leaflet on Irish citizenship following on from the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 2004 as enacted on 1 January 2005 will be posted on his Department's website, as stated in the note in the sections headed information on Irish Citizenship and Irish Citizenship by Naturalisation; and the reason for the delay. [3259/07]

Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)
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The Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act, 2004 made certain changes to Irish citizenship law which came into force on 1 January 2005. Due to the significant increase in the number of citizenship applications being received, as set out in the accompanying table, it has been necessary to deploy all available resources to deal with the processing of same. Consequently, it has not been possible to update the information leaflet referred to in the Deputy's question.

I have been informed by my officials that work is ongoing on an updated version of the leaflet, which takes into account the changes arising from the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 2004, and this will be available in the very near future.