Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 3 July 2013

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade

Vote 28 - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised)

6:05 pm

Photo of Eric ByrneEric Byrne (Dublin South Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

In the past, the American military, Israeli assassins and possibly Russian assassins used Irish passports. Are the new biometric passports foolproof to the greatest possible extent? Is the Tánaiste satisfied that the biometric passports produced from these new machines will be practically impossible to forge? Has there been any incidence in the last few years of people managing to forge Irish passports?

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