Emer Higgins (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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260. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 302 of 29 November 2022, if he will provide a sectoral breakdown as between pharmaceutical, financial services, aircraft leasing, migration-work permits, interstate adoptions, miscellaneous notarial certs and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60664/22]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The Department of Foreign Affairs is the competent authority to confirm that a signature, seal or stamp is from an Irish public official/body, and does this by issuing a physical apostille or authentication stamp on documents.

The last full year that a breakdown of statistics is available for is 2021. That year 54,795 stamps were issued. The following table gives the number and percentage breakdown of this figure by category used.