John Halligan (Waterford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

We have been assured by the passport offices in Mount Street, Dublin, and South Mall, Cork, that they can facilitate the issuing of emergency travel documents where there is an urgent need to travel, particularly for medical reasons or due to a bereavement abroad where the strict criteria for the issuing of such documents have been met. To repeat, we are basing the answers to these questions on the assessment made by speaking to the three passport offices, Balbriggan, Mount Street and South Mall about their requirements. They specifically stated they required 43 additional staff and they got them. We are told by the three offices that the facility to print passports is sufficient as it is today.

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