Catherine Byrne (Dublin South Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 142: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when an application for naturalisation will be processed in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29224/11]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) that the person concerned was granted permission to remain in the State on 2nd June, 2005 under the Revised Arrangements for the non-EEA national parents of children born in Ireland prior to 1st January, 2005, commonly known as the IBC/05 scheme. This permission to remain was renewed and is currently valid to 25th April, 2012.

I am advised by the Citizenship Division of the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service that a valid application for a Certificate of Naturalisation was received from the person concerned in August, 2010. This application is currently being processed with a view to establishing whether the person concerned meets the statutory conditions for the granting of naturalisation and will be submitted to me for decision as expeditiously as possible.

I should remind the Deputy that queries in relation to the status of individual Immigration cases may be made directly to INIS by Email using the Oireachtas Mail facility which has been specially 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.