Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 667: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he expects to deal with an application for naturalisation by a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [16899/07]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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An application for a certificate of naturalisation from the person referred to in the Deputy's question was received in the Citizenship Section of my Department on 5 March 2007. Officials in that Section are currently processing applications received in the latter half of 2004 and have approximately 12,900 applications on hand to be dealt with before that of the person 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 application will commence in late 2009. I will inform the Deputy and the person in question when a decision is reached in the case.

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 668: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he will make a decision on applications for certificates of naturalisation from persons (details supplied) in County Mayo. [16900/07]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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The position concerning the applications for naturalisation in respect of the persons in question remains as outlined in my predecessor's response to the Deputy's parliamentary question number 113 of 24 April 2007.