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Passport Applications.

Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 29 April 2004

Thursday, 29 April 2004

Questions (82)

Joan Burton

Question:

82 Ms Burton asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of passports issued by Irish embassies to qualifying persons of Irish descent for each year from 1997 to date; the specific numbers in respect of the UK, the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa; and the total numbers for all countries. [12373/04]

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Written answers

The information sought by the Deputy cannot be produced from the existing passport issuing system. The system was developed 12 years ago and does not have the capacity to produce reports of the type requested by the Deputy. The new passport issuing system, which is being developed at present and will be operational in the autumn of this year, will have a much greater capacity to produce management information reports.

Paper records of the information sought are not readily available and could only be compiled by the expenditure of a disproportionate amount of time and resources.

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