Niamh Smyth (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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60. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide the figures for 2023 for Irish passport applications from individuals living outside of the State, and specifically figures from Northern Ireland, the rest of the UK, Europe, USA, Australia, Abu Dhabi, Qatar and other parts of the Middle East. [37432/24]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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The Passport Service received 1,036,712 passport applications in 2023. The total number of passport applications received from applicants with addresses outside the State, for 2023, was 318,179.

The Passport Online service offers Irish citizens the ability to apply online for their passport 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It is a user-friendly, efficient service that consistently offers processing times up to 4 times faster than paper-based passport renewal applications. Over 90% of all passport applications are made through Passport Online, which is now available to 99.9% of all applicants across the world.

With regard to total applications made from Northern Ireland and Great Britain in 2023, please see the figures in tabular form below:

With regard to Europe, USA, Australia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and the rest of the Middle East, please see the figures for total online applications, made in 2023, in tabular form below:

A further breakdown of the online applications made by applicants resident in countries in Europe and the Middle East are listed below: