Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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The Registrar of Companies is a statutory role and the Registrar has administrative independence in the exercise of this function. 

Applications to incorporate a company can be submitted to the CRO under one of two schemes, Fé Phráinn, which is an expedited process, and the ordinary online process. Applications received by the CRO are processed in date order and the operational target is to process correctly completed applications under the former scheme within 5 working days and the latter within 10 working days. The CRO provides regular updates of the daily processing times via twitter and on its website and, I understand, is operating well within these targets at present.

I have been informed by the Registrar that the application referred to by the Deputy was initially made under the ordinary online scheme on January 18^thand the application was subsequently returned to the presenter by the CRO on January 21^stand again on January 26^thas amendments were required to the material submitted. Once these issues are addressed, the application can be resubmitted to the CRO for processing.