Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 27 January 2021
405. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of passport applications awaiting processing at the passport office on 1 November 2020, 1 December 2020 and 1 January 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4230/21]
View answerIt is not possible to extract historical data for applications under process for particular days in the past. However, I can provide the numbers of applications received and passports processed for November and December 2020 and until 20 January 2021.
|
Passport Applications received |
Passports issued |
|
|
November 2020 |
20,426 |
7,971 |
|
December 2020 |
29,791 |
29,050 |
|
To 20 January 2021 |
21,313 |
5,234 |
In Level 5 of the National Framework for Living with COVID-19, the Passport Service continues to provide a same day emergency service and a weekly urgent service. For operational reasons, a small number of simple adult renewal applications are processed each week at random to ensure that the complex printing equipment involved in passport production remains in full working order.
