Bernard Allen (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 361: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of Irish citizens who hold more than one valid Irish passport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3849/07]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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The Passport Office may issue an additional passport to a citizen where business, frequent travel or particular visa requirements make it necessary to hold a second travel document. In general, such second passports would have a restricted validity.

In addition, diplomatic passport holders, such as members of the diplomatic service, would have their own standard passports for private travel. The same would be the case in respect of holders of official passports, which inter alia are issued to members of An Garda Síochána and of the Defence Forces for the performance of their duties overseas.

Some 2,705 passports have issued to persons in the above categories in the period since 1 January 2005.