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

I ask that the Department would give us a note on this because I think it could be a lengthy reply and it would be useful for us to have a more detailed response.

I want to ask on the issue of foreign birth passports. Prior to Covid, the processing of applications for foreign birth passport applications stood at 18 months. I have a list of the six top countries, with England being the largest, which is not surprising, followed by the United States and Scotland. It is a very sizeable number. It stood at 18 months before people were redeployed. What is it now?