Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Or maybe divine intervention. In a more serious vein, it is very distressing for the family, to be fair. Normally, passport applications for children tend to be the difficulty and not those for the mother. I will raise this with the Department. It is no fault of the Deputy's because she contacted my office yesterday at around 8.30 a.m., as she did others. It is very distressing for the mother and the family who were selected to go to Rome to have an audience with the Pope. It meant a lot to that family. I cannot understand how that happened, especially if the children's passports were all sorted because that is normally the area where there seems to be the greatest delay.

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