Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 141: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the current or expected position in relation to an application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin. [21650/08]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, 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 February 2008. Officials in that Section are currently processing applications received in late 2005 and have approximately 16,900 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. However, I understand that the person in question is married to an Irish national and every effort is made to ensure those applications are dealt with as quickly as possible.