Dan Neville (Limerick West, Fine Gael)
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Question 206: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will process an application for Irish citizenship on behalf of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [22438/08]

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 April 2007.

Officials in that Section are currently processing applications received in late 2005 and have approximately 9,800 applications on hand to be dealt with before 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.