Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

My constituency office is snowed under too. We all know why we are inviting it in. Some people will ask why we are bringing it in so I will explain, for the record. There is income from the Passport Office, in the order of €50 million, in the Appropriation Accounts which we are examining. It is very much part and parcel of the funding of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Before the Secretary General comes in, we want to deal with the following items with the head of the Passport Office. We want it to give us the different types of application methods. We know about the online system but we want to know how many went through this route last year and until the end of May this year. I do not want the average processing time - I want it broken down by days.