Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy has made this suggestion with regard to the time when a person, over the age of 18 or otherwise, can apply for a passport and whether it is his or her first passport or one that has expired in the previous five years. For a person to apply online. he or she would absolutely need to have a PSC. How else would he or she identify himself or herself during the online process? During those periods, a person always had the ability to go to the local Garda station with his or her passport application, get it signed, get the photograph signed and arrive up to the office in Mount Street. I would respectfully ask the Deputy to withdraw the slur to which I refer and which he has made twice. In his opening statement - and before I had opened my mouth - the Deputy said that I had misled this committee, and he has done it again.