Written answers
Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Passport Services
Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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62. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 151 of 29 February 2024, the steps a person (details supplied) can take to ensure they receive their renewed passport in their new name; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12446/24]
Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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With regard to the specific application raised by the Deputy, the Passport Service has issued a passport to the applicant.
Having reviewed its policy for passport renewal applicants resident in Ireland who wish to change their name and having been issued a Gender Recognition Certificate by the Department of Social Protection, the Passport Service can confirm that the following documents are required:
- Original Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC)
- Current Irish passport.
Jackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail)
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63. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade how a child born in Ireland in 2008 to Romanian citizen parents can qualify for an Irish passport in circumstances (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12454/24]
Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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All passport applications are subject to the provisions of the Passports Act 2008, as amended ("the 2008 Act"). The Act provides, among other things, that a person must be an Irish citizen before a passport can be issued to that person. In order to meet this requirement, each passport applicant must demonstrate an entitlement to Irish citizenship by providing acceptable documentary evidence of this entitlement when making a first time passport application.
Entitlement to Irish citizenship is determined by the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 1956, as amended ("the 1956 Act"). Under the 1956 Act, the citizenship of persons born on the island of Ireland on or after 1 January 2005 is determined by the citizenship or residency status of one of their parents at the time of the person’s birth.
A person born on or after 1 January 2005 may claim citizenship by birth where a parent has been lawfully resident in the State for three years of the four years preceding his/her birth (a total of 1,095 days).
In order to prove this residency period when applying for a passport on behalf of their child, the parent must provide acceptable documentary evidence. The documents required to prove the residency period vary depending on whether the parent was an EU or non-EU citizen at the time of the child’s birth.
Accordingly, the Passport Service is obliged to seek documentary evidence of Irish citizenship before a passport can be issued. It is not possible to issue a passport in the absence of such evidence.
Information on what is required for all first time passport applications, including details on documentary requirements, guardianship and consent, are available at my Department’s website (www.ireland.ie/en/dfa/passports/documentary-requirements/).
If a person born in Ireland after 1 January 2005 is unable to prove their entitlement to Irish citizenship through the citizenship or residency status of one of their parents at the time of their birth, they may be entitled to citizenship through naturalisation.
Information on Irish citizenship through naturalisation is available from the Department of Justice which has responsibility for that process.
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