Ned O'Keeffe (Cork East, Independent)
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Question 539: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when persons (details supplied) in County Cork will be granted naturalisation. [4578/08]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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Applications for certificates of naturalisation from the persons referred to in the Deputy's Question were received in the Citizenship Section of my Department in June 2006. Officials in that Section are currently processing applications received in the middle of 2005 and have approximately 5,300 applications on hand to be dealt with before those of the person's 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 applications will commence towards the end of 2008. I will inform the Deputy and the persons in question when a decision is reached in both cases.