Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 30 January 2008
1259 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will approve the naturalisation application of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2271/08]
View answerAn application for a certificate of naturalisation from the person referred to in the Deputy's question was received in the Citizenship section of my Department in September 2006.
Officials in that section are currently processing applications received in June 2005 and have approximately 7,300 applications on hand to be dealt with before that of the person in question. These are generally dealt with in chronological order as this is deemed to be the fairest to all applicants. It is likely, therefore, that further processing of the application will commence in the first half of 2009.
I will inform the Deputy and the person concerned when I have reached a decision on the matter.
