Joe O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Green Party)
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158. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application for naturalisation by a person (details supplied). [16417/20]

Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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An application for a certificate of naturalisation was received from the person referred to on the 29 May 2019.

This application is currently being processed 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 as expeditiously as possible

It is not possible to provide a definitive time frame within which a particular application will be decided. The nature of the naturalisation process is such that for a broad range of reasons some cases will take longer than others to process. It is a statutory requirement that, among other things, applicants for naturalisation be of good character. In some instances that can be established relatively quickly and in other cases completing the necessary checks can take a considerable period of time. As a result there will always be a proportion of cases that take longer than the norm to process.

Queries in relation to the status of individual immigration cases may be made directly to my Department by e-mail using the Oireachtas Mail facility which has been specifically established for this purpose. This service enables up to date information on such cases to be obtained without the need to seek information by way of the Parliamentary Questions process. The Deputy may consider using the e-mail service except in cases where the response is, in the Deputy’s view, inadequate or too long awaited.