Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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43. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the cost of the contracting out of secure printing by his Department in 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018. [35533/18]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Details of costs associated with secure printing for my Department are outlined in the following table.

These costs refer to spending associated with the printing of travel documents, including passports and emergency travel documents. Such documents, by their nature, require advanced security features which are only available from a specialist printing provider.

Similarly, my Department uses secure printing for Foreign Birth Registration (FBR) certificates.