Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 170: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the procedures to be followed in respect of a passport application in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31701/12]

Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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Each application for a passport, which is received by the Passport Service, is processed in accordance with the provisions of the Passports Act, 2008 (the Act). Details of the various requirements are outlined in the Passport Application Form Notes which accompany each application form. These are also available on the Department's website www.passport.ie

As regards the person in question, I can confirm that an application for a passport was received by the Passport Service on 16 April, 2012. It did not, however, fully meet with the requirements of the Act and thus could not be finalised for passport issue. Accordingly, the Passport Service wrote to the applicant's mother on 25 April, 2012 to inform her of this decision and to advise her of the requirements, which are needed to progress the application. No reply has been received to date from her.

It should be noted that new application form, which has been sent to her, has been pre-registered on the passport system so that on its receipt by the Passport Service, it will be automatically linked into the information and content of the first application.

In light of this, I would recommend that the applicant's mother should reply to the Passport Service's letter of 25 April, 2012 and complete the forms that have been given to her. To help her with this, she can refer to the sources of information in respect of the completion of application forms which is mentioned above or she may contact the Deputy Passport Officer in Balbriggan, Mr. Brian Mulligan (tel. 01.673.3247 – email brian.mulligan@dfa.ie) who is familiar with the application details.