Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 162: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in the matter of an application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31858/07]

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 April 2007. Officials in that section are currently processing applications received at the beginning of 2005 and have approximately 13,000 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 I have reached a decision on the matter.