Written answers
Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Department of Foreign Affairs
Ministerial Orders
9:00 pm
Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Question 372: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the fees or charges set by him by way of ministerial order for the provision of goods or services to persons or businesses; the charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8032/10]
Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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Details of fees or charges set by me by way of Ministerial Order for the provision of goods or services to persons or businesses are set out in, S.I No. 341/1988 – Foreign Births (Amendment) Regulations 1988, S.I. No. 82/2004 - Diplomatic and Consular Fees (Amendment) Regulations 2004 as amended by S.I. No. 391/2005 - Diplomatic and Consular Fees (Amendment) Regulations 2005 and S.I. No 21/2009 - Diplomatic and Consular Fees (Amendment) Regulations 2009.
These Fees and charges are as follows:
Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Question 373: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the charges levied by his Department or agencies under his Department in respect of the provision of goods or services to persons or businesses; the charge; the anticipated income from such charges in 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8044/10]
Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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Details of charges levied by my Department or agencies under my Department in respect of the provision of goods or services to persons or businesses are set out in, S.I No. 341/1988 - Foreign Births (Amendment) Regulations 1988, S.I. No. 82/2004 - Diplomatic and Consular Fees (Amendment) Regulations 2004 as amended by S.I. No. 391/2005 - Diplomatic and Consular Fees (Amendment) Regulations 2005 and S.I. No 21/2009 - Diplomatic and Consular Fees (Amendment) Regulations 2009. These fees and charges are as follows:
Fees for Consular Services Provided by the Department of Foreign Affairs
| Service Rendered | Fee |
| Registration in a Foreign Births Entry Book in the case of the registration of a person under eighteen years of age | €40.00 |
| Registration in a Foreign Births Entry Book in the case of the registration of a person over eighteen years of age | €127.50 |
| Inspection of a Foreign Births Entry Book | €2.50 |
| To obtain a copy of an entry in a Foreign Births Entry Book - long certificate | €12.00 |
| To obtain a copy of an entry in a Foreign Births Entry Book - short certificate | €2.50 |
| Registration in the Foreign Births Register of a person under eighteen years of age | €40.00 |
| Registration in the Foreign Births Register of a person over eighteen years of age | €127.50 |
| Inspection of the Foreign Births Register at the Department of Foreign Affairs | €2.50 |
| To obtain a copy of an entry in the Foreign Births Register - long certificate | €12.00 |
| To obtain a copy of an entry in the Foreign Births Register - short certificate | €2.50 |
| For administering an oath or receiving a declaration or affirmation, with or without attestation of signature | €10.00 |
| For each diplomatic or consular signature attached to an exhibit referred to in an affidavit or declaration | €5.00 |
| For each execution of a power of attorney attested by a diplomatic or consular officer. | €15.00 |
| When 4 or more persons execute a power at the same time | €45.00 |
| For affixing a signature of a diplomatic or consular officer or a diplomatic or consular seal to, or attesting a signature or seal on, any commercial document connected with the export of merchandise from the State or all of the above | €10.00 |
| For affixing a signature or seal of a diplomatic or consular officer or both to any document or object not otherwise provided for by these Regulations (SI No 391/2005) | €20.00 |
| For uniting documents and attaching a diplomatic or consular seal to the fastening | €5.00 |
| For each alteration or interlineations initialled by a diplomatic or consular officer in any document not prepared by that officer | €5.00 |
| For taking evidence on commission | €40.00 for each hour or fraction maximum per day of €350.00 |
| For issuing an apostille attesting a signature or seal on any document not otherwise provided for by these Regulations | €20.00 |
| For issuing a series of apostilles attesting signatures or seals on a set of documents in relation to foreign adoptions documents | €50.00 |
| For verifying or certifying a copy of any document | €10.00 |
| For making a translation of certain documents for consular purposes-a) for the first 200 words, or fraction of 200 wordsb) for every additional 100, or fraction of 100 words | a) €25.00b) €10.00 |
| For certifying a translation of any document or part if a document | €10.00 |
| (If any document referred to above is in a language other than Irish or English, double the fee is charged) | |
| For attesting the signature or seal of a foreign authority | €15.00 |
| For each signature attested by a diplomatic or consular officer in any document not otherwise provided for | €15.00 |
| Arranging the repatriation of a person | €45.00 |
| Arranging the repatriation of a group of persons of the same family travelling together | €45.00 |
| Arranging the collection of funds for a person destitute outside the State seeking financial assistance to return home and the payment outside the state to or on behalf of such person of the equivalent of funds collected in the currency of the country or countries concerned | €45.00 |
| For granting any certificate in connection with a marriage abroad | €20.00 |
| For granting any certificate not otherwise provided for (This does not apply to certificates of nationality under Section 28 of the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act, 1956) | €20.00 |
| For the provision, elsewhere than at a diplomatic or consular office, of any service for which a fee is charged under these regulations, in addition to such fee | €25.00 (For each hour or fraction thereof, maximum per day of €200.00 |
| For the provision of any service (other than the issue of a passport in the circumstances provided for in Regulation 9 (e) of these Regulations), for which a fee is charged under these Regulations, whether at a diplomatic or consular office or at a diplomatic of consular officer's residence, in addition to such fee, for each half-hour, or fraction thereof, out-side its normal hours of opening (this fee is chargeable for any attendance on weekends and public holidays) | €25.00 |
| For processing an application for an Irish visa valid for a single journey in transit through the State | €25.00 |
| For processing an application for an Irish visa valid for a single journey to the State | €60.00 |
| For processing an application for an Irish visa valid for multiple entries to the State | €100.00 |
| For processing an application for a work authorisation | €100.00 |
| For processing an application for a working holiday authorisation(a) in the case of a citizen of the United States America(b) in the case of a citizen of any other state | €250€60 |
Fees for Passport Services provided by the Department of Foreign Affairs
| Reference Number | Service Rendered | Fee |
| 1 | For the issue of a passport of 34 pages to a person over 18 years of age but under 65 years of age | €80.00 |
| 2 | For the issue of a passport of 66 pages to a person over 18 years of age | €110.00 |
| 3 | For the issue of a passport of 34 pages to a person under 3 years of age | €16.00 |
| 4 | For the issue of a passport of 34 pages to a person over 3 years of age but under 18 years of age | €26.50 |
| 5 | For the issue of a passport of 34 pages to a person over 65 years of age | Nil |
| 6 | For the issue of an emergency passport to a person over 18 years of age by the relevant Passport Office, diplomatic mission or consular post outside its normal hours of opening. (This fee is charged for any attendance on weekends and public holidays) In addition, the applicable fee specified at reference number 1 or 2 of this table for the subsequent issue of a passport shall be payable. | €110.00 |
| 7 | For the issue of an emergency passport to a person under 18 years of age by the relevant Passport Office, diplomatic mission or consular post outside its normal hours of opening.(This fee is charged for any attendance on weekends and public holidays) In addition, the applicable fee specified at reference number 3 or 4 in this table for the subsequent issue of a passport shall be payable. | €55.00 |
| 8 | For the issue of a passport to a person over 18 years of age by the relevant Passport Office, diplomatic mission or consular post during normal hours of opening on the same day that the application was submitted or on the day after the application was submitted. In addition, the applicable fee specified at reference number 1 or 2 of this table shall be payable | €55.00 |
| 9 | For the issue of a passport to a person under 18 years of age by the relevant Passport Office, diplomatic mission or consular post during normal hours of opening on the same day that the application was submitted or on the day after the application was submitted. In addition, the applicable fee specified at reference number 3 or 4 of this table shall be payable | €30.00 |
| 10 | For the issue of an emergency travel certificate | €15.00 |
| 11 | For the issue of a European Union Emergency Travel Document, valid for a single journey | Nil |
The anticipated income from such charges in 2010 is €34.3 million.
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