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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions of the Passport Office (29 Jan 2014)
Pat Breen: Yes, but there is no harm repeating it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions of the Passport Office (29 Jan 2014)
Pat Breen: I will add one question. The work of the Passport Office with the Department of Justice and Equality and the associated link is important. Will the deputation comment on that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions of the Passport Office (29 Jan 2014)
Pat Breen: Those are the final questions. Mr. Nugent, you are clearly a star with the committee because we had a good deal of interaction between members and yourself.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions of the Passport Office (29 Jan 2014)
Pat Breen: It only affects about 200 people so it is not a big issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions of the Passport Office (29 Jan 2014)
Pat Breen: We might go there yet.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions of the Passport Office (29 Jan 2014)
Pat Breen: Deputy Durkan, please.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions of the Passport Office (29 Jan 2014)
Pat Breen: To elaborate on that, how tamper-proof is the new passport that has been released, particularly the e-passport?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions of the Passport Office (29 Jan 2014)
Pat Breen: Yes; go ahead.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions of the Passport Office (29 Jan 2014)
Pat Breen: Young people do it on a Saturday night as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions of the Passport Office (29 Jan 2014)
Pat Breen: On a question Deputy Byrne asked, there is legislation on sham marriages being prepared by the Department of Social Protection and I am not sure the passport office has anything to do with that issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions of the Passport Office (29 Jan 2014)
Pat Breen: Mr. Nugent has heard questions from members on their concerns about, and compliments on, the Passport Office. I will hand over to him.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions of the Passport Office (29 Jan 2014)
Pat Breen: That is fine. That is why I brought everybody in together.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions of the Passport Office (29 Jan 2014)
Pat Breen: I will bring everybody in now because some of the questions are overlapping. It is much better in that Mr. Nugent will not have to answer questions twice.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions of the Passport Office (29 Jan 2014)
Pat Breen: Mr. Nugent will answer that for Deputy Durkan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions of the Passport Office (29 Jan 2014)
Pat Breen: Nobody calls one a Member of Parliament here-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions of the Passport Office (29 Jan 2014)
Pat Breen: -----they call one a Teachta Dála, TD. Okay, we will let-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions of the Passport Office (29 Jan 2014)
Pat Breen: Nobody calls one a Member of Parliament; they call one a TD, Teachta Dála.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions of the Passport Office (29 Jan 2014)
Pat Breen: Okay. We will see can we get an answer to that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions of the Passport Office (29 Jan 2014)
Pat Breen: I thank Mr. Nugent for his very informative presentation on how things have changed and improved so much in the Passport Office. When I first became a Deputy I went to the Passport Office. People were frustrated, and the staff were being abused. I felt sorry for the people behind the glass windows there because the arrangements were different then. It takes time to process a passport...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions of the Passport Office (29 Jan 2014)
Pat Breen: Senator Walsh has started off well.