Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 387: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if a passport can be applied for on-line; if not, the reason this service is not available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10115/06]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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The Passport Office would wish to provide a complete on-line application facility as part of its programme of enhancing its service to the public. In pursuit of this, discussions are ongoing with the Reach agency to enable, as a first step, applicants to submit their personal passport details on-line. However, until the level of authentication of identity required for passport security is available under the public service broker, applicants will still have to be requested to submit their photographs, signatures and supporting documentation by post or by hand to the passport authorities.