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Thursday, 14 December 2017

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Passport Applications Data

Photo of Darragh O'BrienDarragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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45. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of persons from Great Britain and Northern Ireland that have applied for an Irish passport in each of the years, 2012 to 2017, in tabular form. [53971/17]

Photo of Simon CoveneySimon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Tracking of passport applications is in general carried out against channel of application rather than by other metrics, including country of origin. Bearing this in mind, the following general breakdown of applications will give the available detail on numbers of passport applications received from Northern Ireland and Great Britain for 2012 to 2016 and in 2017 to date:

YearNorthern IrelandGreat Britain
201241,12445,646
201344,12242,441
201448,47543,449
201553,71546,229
201667,58263,453
2017*80,96481,287

(*1 Jan. – 10 Dec. 2017 only)

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