John Halligan (Waterford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

There was an assessment of the requirements of the offices in Dublin and Cork. The office in Cork required 43 more staff, 30 temporary officers and 13 clerical officers, and it received them. Each passport printer has a capacity of approximately 250 passports per hour. The printing requirements of the office in Cork are met, according to the office in Cork, by the machines in Balbriggan and Mount Street, without any difficulty. If that is the case, the Deputy would be asking us to invest well over €1.7 million for a new machine for the Cork office that we probably would not need. We assessed the requirements of both offices and this is what they asked for and got.

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