Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 162: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in regard to the application for citizenship or family reunification in respect a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20787/09]

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 Division of this Department in January 2005.

A letter issued to the person concerned on 8 September, 2008 requesting further documentation. A copy of the letter was re-issued on 19 January, 2009 and a 21 day letter was issued to the person in question on 28 April, 2009. To date the Citizenship Division of my Department have received no response from the applicant. Further processing of the application will commence once the documentation requested is received.

Officials in the Citizenship Division inform me that the address the Deputy has provided differs from the address my Department holds on file, it is the responsibility of the applicant to keep the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) informed of any change of address in writing.

I am informed by the Immigration Division of my Department that the person in question made a Family Reunification application in respect of two children. A decision issued to the person concerned in April 2004 approving one child and refusing the other. The person concerned subsequently appealed the Family Reunification decision to refuse this child and the decision to refuse was upheld in June 2004.