Brian Hayes (Dublin South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 445: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason for the delay in granting naturalisation to a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; when a decision regarding same can be expected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22398/07]

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 in February 2005.

Officials in that section are currently processing applications received at the beginning of 2005 and have approximately 400 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 the near future.

I will inform the Deputy when I have reached a decision on the application.