Brian Walsh (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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Question 82: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the progress made to date in respect of an application for an Irish passport in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37083/11]

Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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I am pleased to inform the Deputy that a passport has now issued to the person in question and transmitted to her via the Embassy in Pretoria. The approval process was delayed by the necessity under the Passports Act 2008 to establish the applicant's entitlement to Irish citizenship but also, I understand, by an administrative error, which I very much regret. I have asked the Embassy to write to the citizen concerned to explain the delay and to apologise for the inconvenience caused.