Cormac Devlin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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405. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of passport applications awaiting processing at the passport office on 1 November 2020, 1 December 2020 and 1 January 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4230/21]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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It is not possible to extract historical data for applications under process for particular days in the past. However, I can provide the numbers of applications received and passports processed for November and December 2020 and until 20 January 2021.

In Level 5 of the National Framework for Living with COVID-19, the Passport Service continues to provide a same day emergency service and a weekly urgent service. For operational reasons, a small number of simple adult renewal applications are processed each week at random to ensure that the complex printing equipment involved in passport production remains in full working order.