Written answers

Thursday, 9 September 2021

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Passport Services

Photo of John BradyJohn Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein)
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447. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of standard passport applications and renewals that are currently awaiting processing to date in 2021, broken down by each county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42500/21]

Photo of Simon CoveneySimon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The Passport Service has received nearly 500,000 applications in 2021 to date, with approximately 110,000 under process. The current turnaround times are 10 working days for Simple Adult renewals, 15 working days for Complex renewals, 40 working days for First Time applications on Passport Online and 8 weeks for Passport Express for applications which have been completed correctly.

The approximate number of complete Passport Online book applications per county under process currently in the system is set out in the following table.

DONEGAL 1,300
DOWN 3,500
DUBLIN 1,600
FERMANAGH 400
GALWAY 2,600
KERRY 1,300
KILDARE 2,700
KILKENNY 800
LAOIS 800
LEITRIM 300
LIMERICK 1,900
LONGFORD 300
LOUTH 1,500
MAYO 1,200
MEATH 2,300
MONAGHAN 500
OFFALY 700
ROSCOMMON 500
SLIGO 600
TIPPERARY 1,400
TYRONE 1,200
WATERFORD 1,200
WESTMEATH 800
WEXFORD 1,400
WICKLOW 1,700

These figures are correct to 3 September 2021.

There are currently approximately 9,463 paper based applications in the system. It is not possible to break these down by county.

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