Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 534: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made on a stamp four application and the naturalisation application by a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [4568/08]

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 January 2007. Officials in that Section are currently processing applications received in the middle of 2005 and have approximately 9,800 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 mid 2009. I will inform the Deputy and the person in question when a decision is reached in the case.