John Connolly (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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173. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the current wait times for the processing of a first-time passport application for a child; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21951/25]

John Connolly (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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174. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the current wait times for the processing of a first-time passport application for an adult; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21952/25]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 173 and 174 together.

The Passport Service issued over one million passports in 2024. To date in 2025, the Passport Service has issued over 370,000 passports.

2025 is expected to be another busy year for the Passport Service and my Department is in an excellent position to meet the demand forecasted for the summer season. I am pleased to say that the Passport Service is successfully meeting high demand for passports. Virtually all complete passport applications are being processed within or before advertised turnaround times and over half of adult renewal applications are processed within 2 working days.

With regard to the Deputy's question, the table below provides turnaround times for all types of passport application:

I would ask the Deputy to encourage his constituents to apply for their passports through Passport Online, as the quickest, easiest and most cost effective way to apply for a passport. The Passport Online service allows citizens to apply online for their passport 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Passport Online is an award-winning, user-friendly, efficient service that consistently offers processing times up to four times faster than paper-based passport renewal applications. Passport Online is available to 99.9% of all applicants globally.