Written answers
Tuesday, 6 July 2010
Department of Foreign Affairs
Departmental Offices
10:00 am
Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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Question 72: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his plans to set up additional satellite passport offices outside of Dublin and Cork; his views on locating one of these satellite offices at Shannon Airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29582/10]
Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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As I indicated to the Deputy on 02 June last I have asked my officials to examine the feasibility of providing passport production equipment in other parts of the country. However, I do not expect that a decision in this regard will be made in the short term. The priority for the Passport Service at present is to reduce the substantial backlog in passport applications and to restore the normal turnaround time for passport processing at the earliest opportunity. At that time the question of additional passport office services will be examined in more detail.
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