Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)
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Question 870: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for naturalisation by a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23615/08]

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 January 2006. Officials in that section are currently processing applications received in January 2006 and have approximately 100 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. It is likely, therefore, that further processing of the application will commence shortly. I will inform the Deputy and the person in question when I have reached a decision on the matter.