Aindrias Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

In the context of balanced regional development, having counterweights to Dublin in places such as Waterford, Shannon, Cork and Limerick gives them an opportunity to grow. It does not all have to go through Dublin. A passport office is up and running in Cork. The Minister of State mentioned an assessment of staffing and processing applications. I am talking about printing facilities, making the full service available in the south so that people from Waterford, Cork, Kerry, Clare and across the entire southern region would be able to get that service locally and there would be a more balanced regional approach to it. Has an assessment ever been conducted of having printing outside Dublin in the Cork office? The Minister of State started the credit card printing facility in recent years, surely at that stage some assessment would have been conducted on where it should be done. If that has not happened, can there be a review so that we can see if it would be viable for people in Cork and in the south of the country to have the full service available to them?

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