Seamus Brennan
Question:120 Mr. S. Brennan asked the Minister for Justice if she will review the naturalisation application of a doctor and his two children (details supplied) which has been with her Department for almost ten years; her views on whether the continued refusal of the application is grossly unfair in view of the fact that the wife of the doctor, who is the mother of his children, was naturalised in August 1995, and has since secured a permanent post as the senior person in a hospital laboratory; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the doctor's passport for his country of birth expires in May 1996, with no possibility of it being renewed; her further views that registration with the Medical Council, which she previously indicated was a factor, is not relevant due to the impossibility of obtaining medical records from his country of birth and that if it was possible to get the records it would take one year for registration, and that the stress of being effectively a stateless person would militate against any attempts to complete the necessary examinations; if her attention has been further drawn to the fact that the doctor has property interests in a third country which he is anxious to liquidate and return the funds to Ireland; and if she is prepared to endorse the continued delay in the naturalisation of his two children who according to her Department are not a priority in view of their ages, 11 and 14. [3335/96]
