Mr. Barry Lowry:

Absolutely. A passport is effectively a paper credential which says something. It says you are a recognised citizen of the State of Ireland and Ireland gives you a credential - a passport - which proves that. A digital passport is no different. What would happen is that, a bit like the digital Covid certificate, Ireland would have its own unique identifier which can be read by other countries, and it would work exactly the same way. It would be perfectly feasible to create a digital equivalent of our Irish passport.