Bernard Allen (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 822: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made on the application for naturalisation by a person (details supplied) in County Cork; if he will clarify the statement made by him in the response to Parliamentary Question No. 146 of 1 May 2008 that a letter had been sent to the applicant on 22 September 2005, which the person states that they did not receive. [27350/08]

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 originally received in the Citizenship Section of my Department in April 2005.

On examination of this application it was determined that the person concerned did not meet the statutory residency requirement as set out in the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act, 1956, as amended. A letter informing the applicant of this was issued on 13 April 2005.

Representations were made on behalf of the applicant on 10 May 2005 requesting that the application be reconsidered. A letter was issued on 22 September 2005 re-iterating that the applicant did not meet the statutory residency requirement and that the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act, 1956, as amended does not provide for an appeals process.

A new 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 inform me that the application has not been examined in detail. Examination of the residency requirement will take place in the near future and the applicant will be contacted at that time informing him when his application will be further examined or, of any shortfall in his residency.