Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 196: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision on an application for naturalisation will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27997/07]

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 2005.

Officials in that Section are currently processing applications received at the beginning of 2005 and have approximately 2,800 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 2008.

I will inform the Deputy and the person in question when I have reached a decision on the application.