John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail)
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Question 834: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he expects to make a decision regarding applications for naturalisation by persons (details supplied) in County Dublin. [11320/08]

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 October 2005. Officials in that section are currently processing applications received in mid 2005 and have approximately 1,300 applications on hand to be dealt with before those of the persons in question. 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 in the near future. I will inform the Deputy and the persons concerned when I have reached a decision on the applications.