Joe McHugh (Donegal North East, Fine Gael)
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Question 426: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will intervene on behalf of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal, who has applied for citizenship; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16210/08]

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 June 2007.

Officials in that section are currently processing applications received in August 2005 and have approximately 12,300 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. The Deputy has not put forward sufficient reason that would warrant taking this application out of sequence. It is likely, therefore, that further processing of the application will commence in early 2010.

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