Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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305. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on a foreign birth register application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58815/22]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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My Department is responsible for processing Foreign Birth Registration (FBR) applications for people who are born abroad and claim Irish Citizenship through a grandparent born in Ireland or through a parent who has claimed citizenship also through FBR, Naturalisation or Post Nuptial Citizenship.

The application to which the Deputy has referred is for the replacement of an FBR certificate. This certificate has been submitted to the Passport Service as part of another FBR application. For integrity purposes, it is not possible to issue a replacement certificate when a copy is already at hand. The Passport Service has recently processed the FBR application which included the required certificate, and the certificate will be returned in the near future. A member of the FBR team will make contact with the applicant shortly in order to arrange a refund for his application for a replacement certificate.