does anybody else feel that over 30000 lost and stolen Passports each year is a frighteningly high figure.
Many of these are the result of young people bringing them with them within the Republic to use as proof of age to gain admission or buy liquor.
The lack of a National Identity Card,and/or the failure of the State to make mandatory the Garda Age Card leads to what I consider to be an abuse of the most important document that the State gives to her citizens;it offends me to see the passport being used to validate a commercial transaction.
Surely in light of these figures,it is imperitive that the Dept of Foreign Affairs and the Dept.of Justice take remedial legislative action to reduce this abuse.How many of these passports are in the hands of criminals and terrorist organisations?
vincent jennings
Posted on 18 Dec 2009 11:41 pm
does anybody else feel that over 30000 lost and stolen Passports each year is a frighteningly high figure.
Many of these are the result of young people bringing them with them within the Republic to use as proof of age to gain admission or buy liquor.
The lack of a National Identity Card,and/or the failure of the State to make mandatory the Garda Age Card leads to what I consider to be an abuse of the most important document that the State gives to her citizens;it offends me to see the passport being used to validate a commercial transaction.
Surely in light of these figures,it is imperitive that the Dept of Foreign Affairs and the Dept.of Justice take remedial legislative action to reduce this abuse.How many of these passports are in the hands of criminals and terrorist organisations?