Joe Costello (Dublin Central, Labour)
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Question 335: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to reports emerging from a court case in the Bahamas that a person (details supplied) who received an Irish passport under the passports for investment scheme has six Irish passports; the date on which the original passport was issued; the date on which each subsequent passport was issued; the location from which it was issued; the circumstances in which it was issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31501/05]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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It is important to state that the person in question holds only one valid Irish passport. His first passport was issued in 1995 following the granting of citizenship through naturalisation to him by the then Minister for Justice, Deputy Nora Owen. His passport history is set out as follows:

The first three passports were each returned for cancellation and new passports issued in their place. The fourth passport was reported as lost and, as a result, a limited validity passport was issued in its place. This latter passport was returned in due course for cancellation and a replacement passport to full validity was issued.