Passports Data

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 18 September 2013

Wednesday, 18 September 2013

Questions (116)

John Lyons

Question:

116. Deputy John Lyons asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of persons in possession of an Irish passport who are not resident here. [38585/13]

Written answers

Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (Deputy Eamon Gilmore)

The information requested regarding current place of residence of Irish passport holders is not maintained by the Passport Service. The Passport Service technology system does not currently record "address" information in the structured format necessary to facilitate the production of management information in relation to place of residency, place of birth etc. Additionally passports are issued for a ten year period it would not be unusual for people to change address or even country of residence a number of times over this period. Additionally, the address to which the passport is sent is requested only for the purpose of passport delivery. However I can provide some information regarding numbers of passports issued by our Embassies and Consulates around the world in 2012 which may be of assistance to the Deputy.

Country	Number
Abu Dhabi	898
Abuja	256
Addis Ababa	17
Ankara	77
Athens	145
Auckland	1832
Beijing	618
Berlin	1474
Berne	756
Boston	1794
Brasilia	100
Bratislava	18
Brussels	588
Bucharest	60
Budapest	64
Buenos Aires	162
Cairo	271
Canberra	5646
Chicago	1632
Copenhagen	166
Dar-Es-Salaam	46
Edinburgh	33
Hanoi	100
Helsinki	85
Kampala	41
Kuala Lumpur	468
Lilongwe	11
Lisbon	143
Ljubljana	29
London	52550
Lusaka	73
Luxembourg	233
Madrid	1502
Maputo	31
Maseru	4
Mexico	138
Moscow	90
New Delhi	138
New York	5281
Nicosia	109
Oslo	101
Ottawa	2128
Paris	1554
Prague	104
Pretoria	2586
Riga	11
Riyadh	355
Rome	388
San Francisco	3094
Sydney	3282
Seoul	85
Shanghai	113
Singapore	417
Sofia	36
Stockholm	249
Tallin	7
Tehran	3
Tel Aviv	167
The Hague	730
Tokyo	162
Valetta	75
Vienna	191
Vilnius	22
Warsaw	85
Washington	739