Martin Ferris (Kerry North-West Limerick, Sinn Fein)
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Question 89: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs when a passport will issue to a person (details supplied). [13023/11]

Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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A passport application for the person named was received by the Passport Service in July 2007. The citizenship of a child born on the island of Ireland on or after 1 January 2005 depends on the citizenship or period of legal residence in Ireland of his or her parents at the time of the child's birth and is determined by reference to the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 2004. In August 2007 the Passport Service wrote to the applicant's parents seeking evidence of legal residence in the State to establish entitlement to Irish citizenship. The Passport Service has no record of correspondence from the applicant's family since this date. We would welcome any details that the Deputy could provide in this case.