Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 13 June 2013
55. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if an Irish passport will issue to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28587/13]
View answerThe person in question is an Angolan national who recently became a naturalised Irish citizen and subsequently applied for her first Irish passport. However, the name applied for her Irish passport and that appearing on her naturalisation certificate, are in the opposite order to the name that appears on her valid Angolan passport. The Department has been in contact with the applicant and her solicitor in relation to this anomaly. In view of the applicant’s regular use of this passport since 2003, the Department has requested that the person in question regularise this passport error. This would remove any possibility of the use of two passports (Irish and Angolan) with different identities. In the meantime, the Department will issue a restricted two year passport to this person to allow her travel while the matter of her Angolan passport is being rectified at which time a new Irish passport will issue.
