Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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142. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a passport will issue to a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22534/23]

John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein)
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144. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on the status of a passport renewal of a person (details supplied) as the applicant's target issue date is imminent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22648/23]

John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein)
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145. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on the status of a passport renewal of a person (details supplied) as the applicant's target issue date is imminent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22649/23]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 142, 144, 145, 152 and 153 together.

With regard to the specific applications about which the Deputies have enquired, the Passport Service has issued passports to the applicants.

Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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143. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of applicants’ documents received by the Passport Office that were subsequently lost, forcing applicants to resend documents; the number of applicants whose documents are recovered; the number of applicants whose documents that were not recovered in 2021, 2022, to date in 2023, in tabular form, by county of applicant. [22562/23]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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My Department takes its responsibilities in relation to documentation it receives in support of passport applications and its obligations under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and relevant legislation very seriously. The Department has a Data Protection Policy and a number of other internal policies and procedures in place that apply to processing documentation it receives.

The Passport Service has been unable to compile the figures in the format requested within the time allowed for the Parliamentary Question response. The Passport Service will follow up directly with the Deputy to share the figures when they are ready.