Written answers

Thursday, 2 March 2017

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Passport Applications

Photo of Pat DeeringPat Deering (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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138. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if copy birth certificates are acceptable for passport applications as the originals have not been returned from INIS which were submitted with asylum applications. [10810/17]

Photo of Charles FlanaganCharles Flanagan (Laois, Fine Gael)
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The Passports Act, 2008 (the Act) makes provision for the regulation and issuance of passports. Under section 7(1)(b) of the Act, the Department must be satisfied as to the identity of a passport applicant before a passport can issue. An original birth certificate is a key, primary identity document to support a passport application and therefore a copy is not acceptable.

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