Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 990: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the position regarding an application for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32598/10]

Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 1048: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the position regarding an application for citizenship in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32656/10]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 990 and 1048 together.

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 August 2010.

On examination of the application submitted, it was determined that the application be returned in its entirety to the person concerned for further attention on 19 August, 2010. In order to be fair to all applicants, only valid applications can be considered.

It is open to the person in question to re-submit the application to the Citizenship Section of my Department at any time.

I should remind the Deputy that queries in relation to the status of individual Immigration cases may be made direct to INIS by e-mail using the Oireachtas Mail facility which has been specifically established for this purpose. The service enables up-to-date information on such cases to be obtained without the need to seek this information through the more administratively expensive Parliamentary Questions process.