Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 24 March 2022
242. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the amount collected in passport application fees in the past ten years to date; and the breakdown of the fees collected in respect of first-time applications, renewals, emergency passports and so on over the same time period. [15729/22]
View answerThe total amount of passport fees collected by the Passport Service since 2012 is outlined in the following table.
A breakdown of the fees collected by application type as requested by the Deputy is not available as our current system does not easily facilitate this. This is further complicated by the many other factors which would need to be taken into consideration including the channel used to apply for the passport, where the person resides and if there was a reduced fee applied when a bundle of passport book and passport card were applied for at the same time.
|
Year |
Passport Fees Collected |
|
2012 |
€39,634,921 |
|
2013 |
€38,369,783 |
|
2014 |
€39,055,198 |
|
2015 |
€42,051,536 |
|
2016 |
€46,744,825 |
|
2017 |
€50,227,847 |
|
2018 |
€51,379,655 |
|
2019 |
€53,612,645 |
|
2020 |
€26,745,948 |
|
2021 |
€40,258,356 |
|
2022 (to date) |
€13,841,356 |
