Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick County, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The debate on this Bill is not the forum for the point the two Deputies are making. That forum is the debate on every piece of legislation that prescribes a method for the collection of data for a particular service, which this clearly does not. Deputy Daly referred to the use of the passport. That is a very good example. How would a person even get a passport under the Deputies' amendment, if he or she could choose not to provide a surname, forename, date of birth and place of birth? I have never heard of a passport being issued to somebody who could choose not to provide that information.

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