John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail)
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Question 406: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when an application for naturalisation by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22 will be decided. [7529/08]

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 May 2007.

Officials in that section are currently processing applications received in mid-2005 and have approximately 12,000 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 late 2009. I will inform the Deputy and the person in question when I have reached a decision on the matter.