Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 252: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the procedure to be followed in the case of a person (detail supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2961/08]

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 in July 2005 and have approximately 11,200 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.