Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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I welcome the officials. As they have just heard from the Chairman, we have very limited time for putting questions and getting responses. I would therefore appreciate succinct responses.

The most recent reply I got to a parliamentary question on the number of passports applied for up to the end of May gave a figure of 766,000. How many of those have issues and what is the backlog? I want to get a sense of it at this stage because passports have become a staple in all of our constituency offices and I think most of us would rather they were not.