John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail)
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Question 259: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when it is expected that a decision will be made regarding an application for citizenship made by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 20. [25756/07]

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 October 2006. Officials in that Section are currently processing applications received at the beginning of 2005 and have approximately 9,800 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 first half of 2009. I will inform the Deputy and the person concerned when I have reached a decision on the matter.