Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 85: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason funding to the Irish naturalisation and immigration service is being decreased by 4% when according to his parliamentary question responses the numbers of applications being processed have increased dramatically in recent years. [34627/07]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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I can inform the Deputy that funding for the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (€53.452m in 2007) included funding allocated for Integration measures. As the Deputy will have noted these measures are now separately funded in Subhead E8 of Vote 19 in 2008. Consequently the allocation to this subhead (€9.293m in 2008) must be taken into account when comparing the allocation of resources to the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service in 2007 and 2008. I am satisfied that the level of resources allocated to immigration related activities in my Department will, in the context of overall Departmental budgets, be sufficient to ensure that appropriate levels of service are provided in 2008.