Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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Question 1054: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will expedite an application for citizenship for persons (details supplied). [20839/07]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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Applications for certificates of naturalisation from the persons referred to were received in the Citizenship Section of my Department in May 2007.

Officials in that Section are currently processing applications received in early 2005 and have approximately 14,400 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. As no reason has been put forward by the Deputy which would justify the applications being dealt with ahead of other applicants, it is likely that further processing of the applications will commence towards the end of 2009. I will inform the Deputy and the persons in question when I have reached a decision on the applications.