Pa Daly (Kerry, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I wish to raise a sensitive issue with the Taoiseach. Widowers, widows and guardians must produce affidavits and death certificates every time their child's passport is being renewed. It may be a reasonable position to prevent fraud etc. but I am sure the Taoiseach will agree it is excessive and upsetting when those documents must be produced every single time the passport is being renewed. The Department for Foreign Affairs website states that if one of the two guardians is deceased and no other guardian is appointed, the living guardian is the sole guardian and an original death certificate must be produced every time. Will the Taoiseach be caring and compassionate and do something about that? It is painful and traumatising for the person who is surviving to have to produce those documents on each occasion.

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