Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Question 256: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the position in relation to an application for citizenship by a person (details supplied); if in view of the fact that they are here and would like to stay for the summer, a visa extension will be granted and their application for citizenship dealt with as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22028/08]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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I am pleased to inform the Deputy that the application for Irish citizenship, through entry in the Foreign Births Register, by the person to whom he has referred has been approved by the Consulate General in New York. The certificate confirming the applicant's Irish citizenship has been issued by the Consulate-General, and, as a result, she does not now require a visa to remain in Ireland.