Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick East, Labour)
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Question 203: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a decision on an application for naturalisation will be made as soon as possible in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick who has been living here for seven years, has residency status and who applied for naturalisation in 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9896/08]

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 November 2006.

Officials in that section are currently processing applications received in mid 2005 and have approximately 8,200 applications on hand to be dealt with before that of the person in question. These are generally dealt with in chronological order as this is deemed to be the fairest to all applicants. The Deputy has not provided any information which would warrant taking this application out of sequence.

It is likely, therefore, that further processing of the application will commence towards the middle of 2009.

I will inform the Deputy and the person concerned when I have reached a decision on the matter.