Joe Flaherty
Question:886. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of persons who have applied for a passport which have not yet been processed by county in tabular form. [20505/21]
View answerWednesday, 21 April 2021
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The Passport Service has a comprehensive plan in place to resume all services, in line with the National Framework for Living with COVID-19. When operations resume at Level 4, all applications received via Passport Online will be processed. The Passport Service is confident, taking into account measures to ensure a safe workplace, that any Passport Online backlog can be cleared in six to eight weeks.
Since the beginning of this year the Passport Service has processed approximately 25,000 adult renewal applications and almost 3000 emergency and urgent applications. More than 36,000 webchat queries have also been responded to.
The approximate number of online applications per county under process currently in the system is set out in the table below.
|
County |
Passport Online application under process |
|
Antrim |
4,700 |
|
Armagh |
1,000 |
|
Carlow |
400 |
|
Cavan |
500 |
|
Clare |
900 |
|
Cork |
4,300 |
|
Derry |
1,500 |
|
Donegal |
1,200 |
|
Down |
3,100 |
|
Dublin |
16,000 |
|
Fermanagh |
300 |
|
Galway |
2,200 |
|
Kerry |
1,000 |
|
Kildare |
2,200 |
|
Kilkenny |
700 |
|
Laois |
600 |
|
Leitrim |
200 |
|
Limerick |
1,700 |
|
Longford |
300 |
|
Louth |
1,100 |
|
Mayo |
900 |
|
Meath |
1,900 |
|
Monaghan |
400 |
|
Offaly |
500 |
|
Roscommon |
400 |
|
Sligo |
500 |
|
Tipperary |
1,100 |
|
Tyrone |
1,200 |
|
Waterford |
800 |
|
Westmeath |
700 |
|
Wexford |
1,000 |
|
Wicklow |
1,500 |
These figures are correct to 16 April 2021.
There are currently approximately 2,000 paper based applications in the system. It is not possible to break these down by county. The Passport Service plans to resume processing of routine paper based applications such as Passport Express and Northern Ireland Passport Express at Level 3 of the framework.