Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 163: 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 7; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1950/11]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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A valid 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 on 6 September 2004. This application was refused by my predecessor. The reason for the refusal was disclosed to the applicant in a letter dated 22 September 2006. It is open to the person in question to lodge a new application if and when he is in a position to satisfy the statutory requirements applicable at that time. However, in doing so he should bear in mind the reasons for refusal of his previous application.

I should remind the Deputy that queries in relation to the status of individual Immigration cases may be made direct to INIS by Email 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.