John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail)
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Question 432: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he expects a decision to be made regarding an application for naturalisation by persons (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26869/07]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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Applications for certificates of naturalisation from the persons referred to in the Deputy's Question were received in the Citizenship Section of my Department in September 2005.

Officials in that Section are currently processing applications received at the beginning of 2005 and have approximately 2,200 applications on hand to be dealt with before that of the individuals 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 applications will commence in the first half of 2008.

I will inform the Deputy and the persons in question when I have reached a decision on the matter.