Neale Richmond (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael)

At the moment, our priority is to move as much passport activity, including first-time applications and renewals, as possible to an online basis. Opening a new physical office anywhere in the country would run counter to that. We are seeing the demand for in-person passport applications drastically decrease. Bearing in mind that having a passport office requires a printing facility as well for the passports, we have no plans to look for one anywhere else in the country.