Terence Flanagan (Dublin North East, Fine Gael)
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Question 100: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the position regarding a passport in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6055/11]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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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 Division of my Department in September 2008. The application is being processed in the normal way with a view to establishing whether the applicant meets the statutory conditions for the granting of naturalisation and will be submitted to me for decision in due course. A letter issued to the person concerned on 9 November 2010 requesting further documentation. A copy of the letter was re-issued on 23 March 2011. Processing of the application will continue when the required documentation is received. As the person concerned is not an Irish citizen, she is not entitled to an Irish passport and there is no entitlement to citizenship under the naturalisation provisions of the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 1956, as amended.

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.