Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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Question 525: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for citizenship through naturalisation of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [26479/07]

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 March 2007.

Officials in that section are currently processing applications received at the beginning of 2005 and have approximately 12,300 applications on hand to be dealt with before that of the person in question. 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 applicant when I have a reached a decision on the matter.