Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

Given that the processing of passports through the Passport Express service is taking up to eight weeks for a large number of people, should those who plan to travel within an eight-week timeframe not include their travel documents with their application in order that the Passport Office knows which applicants will run into difficulty? I know the Passport Office wants to take applications in sequence but one solution would be to deal with those that will run into trouble.