Peter Power (Limerick East, Fianna Fail)
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Question 390: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of an application by a person (details supplied) in County Limerick to receive Irish citizenship; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22136/08]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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I refer the Deputy to the reply to Parliamentary Question 503 on 4 March 2008. The position remains as stated.

Peter Power (Limerick East, Fianna Fail)
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Question 391: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status on an application by a person (details supplied) in County Limerick for naturalisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22137/08]

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 September 2007.

Officials in that Section are currently processing applications received in late 2005 and have approximately 13,500 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.

Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 392: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to an application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22300/08]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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I refer the Deputy to my reply to Parliamentary Question 711 on 26 June 2007 and Parliamentary Question 1207 on 30 January 2008. The position remains as stated.