Denis Naughten (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fine Gael)
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Question 463: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made on an application for naturalisation by a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7988/08]

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 August 2006.

Officials in that section are currently processing applications received in mid 2005 and have approximately 6,800 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 the first half of 2009. I will inform the Deputy and the person in question when I have reached a decision on the matter.