An application from the person referred to in the Deputy's Question was received in the Citizenship Division of my Department in March 2009.
The Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act, 1956, as amended, provides that the Minister may, in his absolute discretion, grant an application for a certificate of naturalisation provided certain statutory conditions are fulfilled. One such condition is that the person in question intends in good faith to continue to reside in the State after naturalisation. In the application submitted, the person concerned answered Question 6.1 by stating that she did not intend to reside in the State after naturalisation, therefore she does not comply with this condition.
Consequently, the Citizenship Division of my Department have deemed her application ineligible. The person in question was informed of this decision in a letter issued to her on 10 March, 2009.
It is open to the person in question to re-submit the application to the Citizenship Division of my Department at any time.