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

Yes, particularly. I was in the Cork passport office just before Christmas. It is an excellent office. Generally speaking, it is at this time of year that people are beginning to make their queries and so on. The timelines have gone well in the past year and a half. The online application is very efficient at the moment and the passport service responds. I will come back to the Deputy on whether we are in the business of alerting people about expiry - I do not think we are - and on the machinery that is required for the one-day rapid facility. I have made inquiries about that already. We will see how it progresses.

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