Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 659: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for naturalisation in the case of persons (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16776/07]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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Applications for certificates of naturalisation from the persons in question were received in the Citizenship section of my Department of 4 January 2007. Officials in that Section are currently processing applications received in the latter half of 2004 and have approximately 11,700 applications on hand to be dealt with before those of the persons 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 second half of 2009. I will inform the Deputy and the persons in question when a decision is reached in each case.