Eamon Scanlon (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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404. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the turnaround time for online passport applications for adult renewals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16776/17]

Charles Flanagan (Laois, Fine Gael)
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I launched the new online passport application service on 30 March. The new service is fast, convenient and secure and it allow adults to renew their passport books and cards online and twenty four hours a day wherever they are in the world.

The service has a target turnaround time of ten working days, plus postage time. The postage time will vary of course depending on the country in which the applicant resides.

People can apply via the Department’s website at www.dfa.ie, using their personal computers, tablets or mobile phones. The service is a key project within the Passport Reform Programme which is modernising technology platforms, business processes and controls.