Tom Hayes
Ceist:258 Mr. Hayes asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary who has applied for citizenship. [10428/07]
Amharc ar fhreagraTuesday, 20 March 2007
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Freagraí scríofa
An application for a certificate of naturalisation from the person referred to was received in the Citizenship section of my Department in October 2006. The case was recently submitted to me for a decision as to whether it might be expedited. However, as no reason has been put forward by the Deputy which would justify the application being dealt with ahead of other applicants, I decided that it should be processed in the normal manner.
Officials in the Citizenship section are currently processing applications received in the latter half of 2004 and have approximately 10,450 applications on hand to be dealt with before that of the person in question. I will inform the Deputy and the person concerned when I have reached a decision on the application.