Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick East, Labour)
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Question 86: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made on an application by persons (details supplied) in County Limerick for long-term residency and naturalisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15738/07]

Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)
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Applications for certificates of naturalisation from the persons referred to in the Deputy's question were received in the Citizenship Section of my Department on 6 September 2006. Officials in that Section are currently processing applications received in the latter half of 2004 and have approximately 10,100 applications on hand to be dealt with before those of the individuals concerned. These are generally dealt with in chronological order as this is deemed to be the fairest to all applicants. It is likely, therefore, that further processing of the applications will commence in the first half of 2009. I will inform the Deputy and the persons in question when I have reached a decision on the applications.