Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 30 June 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs

9:30 am

Mr. John Conlan:

Currently, we have 38,000 applications on hand. Pre-Covid, that was about 9,000, and in November of last year, it was 24,000, so there is a constant stream up. We restarted foreign birth registration, FBR, processing last November and we are processing-----