Jim O'Keeffe (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 556: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to the application for a certificate of naturalisation for a person (details supplied) in Cork south west; and if same will be granted. [25206/07]

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 the 9 January 2007.

Officials in that Section are currently processing applications received in the beginning of 2005 and have approximately 11,300 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 second half of 2009. I will inform the Deputy and the person in question when a decision is reached in the case.