Charles Flanagan (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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Question 520: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made on an application for citizenship in respect of a person (details supplied). [24689/07]

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 November 2005. Officials in that section are currently processing applications received at the beginning of 2005 and have approximately 3,700 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 this application will commence in the first half of 2008. I will inform the applicant and the Deputy when I have reached a decision on the matters.