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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (28 Sep 2021)

Michael Ring: 417. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of completed passports that were physically collected by applicants or by persons on behalf of the applicant at the passport office on a monthly basis from February 2020 to September 2021, inclusive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46563/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (28 Sep 2021)

Michael Ring: 418. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of persons who were turned away from the public office of the passport office on a weekly basis from March 2020 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46564/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (28 Sep 2021)

Michael Ring: 419. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of staff reassigned from the passport office FRR section to the HSE for essential contact tracing, to the Department of Social Protection for the processing of essential pandemic unemployment payments and to support the Department of Health with quarantine issues; when those staff members will return to work for his Department;...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (28 Sep 2021)

Michael Ring: 420. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the exact number of temporary clerical officers assigned by the Public Appointments Service to the passport office in recent weeks; if all of those temporary staff have commenced their employment to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46567/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (28 Sep 2021)

Michael Ring: 569. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an appointment will be made to a facility (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46133/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Passport Services (30 Sep 2021)

Michael Ring: 61. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of outstanding passport applications currently in the Passport Office; when he expects the backlog to be cleared; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47038/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Passport Services (30 Sep 2021)

Michael Ring: I have Question No. 11 on the Question Paper.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Passport Services (30 Sep 2021)

Michael Ring: It is on the Question Paper.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Passport Services (30 Sep 2021)

Michael Ring: I am not going to have a row with you. That is the Question Paper. If it is on the Question Paper, I thought it would be called in order. I came in to speak about the Passport Office and I would like to have that opportunity.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Passport Services (30 Sep 2021)

Michael Ring: I am not going to let it go and I will speak to you when this is over, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. There is no point putting questions down if I am not going to be called. Thank you.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Passport Services (30 Sep 2021)

Michael Ring: With regard to the Passport Office, I agree with all the previous speakers. Who made the decision at the beginning of the pandemic that this was not an essential service? Was it a Secretary General who the Minister has now made an ambassador and who got rewarded for making a mess of the Passport Office? What really annoys me about government is this. We look at the front page of the Irish...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Passport Services (30 Sep 2021)

Michael Ring: It is €115 for the appointment and €95 for the password afterwards. I will give one example, just one example, and I will stop then.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Passport Services (30 Sep 2021)

Michael Ring: Thank you. You might let me back in again.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Passport Services (30 Sep 2021)

Michael Ring: I always co-operate. It is you who did not co-operate with me this morning on the Question Paper.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Passport Services (30 Sep 2021)

Michael Ring: Last Friday evening, a constituent of mine who has dual citizenship - Canadian and Irish - was on to me. They made their application to the Irish Passport Office. They went up to the Canadian Embassy last Friday evening and they came out with an emergency passport for the child. They could not even get an answer from the Passport Office here in Dublin. They spent weeks and weeks and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Passport Services (30 Sep 2021)

Michael Ring: An Irish citizen who is a taxpayer-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Passport Services (30 Sep 2021)

Michael Ring: The Irish citizen, who is paying his or her tax in this country, should have that document and he or she should not be begging for it.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Human Rights (30 Sep 2021)

Michael Ring: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for letting me in. I did not realise that I was going to be able to ask my question, so I thank her.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Passport Services (30 Sep 2021)

Michael Ring: 11. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of staff working in the Passport Office on a monthly basis from January 2020 to 31 August 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47039/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Passport Services (30 Sep 2021)

Michael Ring: I will put two brief questions to the Minister. First, will he take staff from other Departments and put them into the Passport Office to try to deal with the emergency? Second, and seriously, is it not time that the Department considered putting a passport office in the west? If there is a problem, it is not fair that someone from Galway, Mayo or Belmullet has to go to Dublin to resolve...