Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 672: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when Irish citizenship by naturalisation will be approved for persons (details supplied) in County Mayo. [16904/07]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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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 1 June 2005 and 7 February 2006.

Officials in that Section are currently processing applications received in the latter half of 2004 and have approximately 2,000 and 5,500 applications to be dealt with before those of the first and second named individuals respectively. 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 early 2008 and late 2008 respectively. I will inform the Deputy and the individuals concerned when I have reached a decision on the applications.