Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 17 June 2008
801 Deputy Mary O’Rourke asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will review again the case of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath who has applied for citizenship over a long period. [22861/08]
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 December 2007.
Officials in that Section are currently processing applications received in late 2005 and have approximately 15,400 applications on hand to be dealt with before that of the person concerned. 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 mid 2010.
