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Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 2 July 2013

Tuesday, 2 July 2013

Ceisteanna (168)

Brendan Smith

Ceist:

168. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a country by country per annum breakdown of Irish passports given out by embassies over the past ten years; the fees collected per annum; the number of passports issued domestically over the past ten years and fees collected; the number of emergency passports issued domestically over that period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32032/13]

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Prior to the full introduction of our current technology system in Oct 2005 the Passport Service only recorded figures for passports issued on the island of Ireland. These pre-2006 records below do not differentiate between emergency and non-emergency passports.

Year

Issued in Ireland

2003

467,653

2004

506,889

2005

568,228

The following table outlines the country by country per annum breakdown down commencing in 2006.

-

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

Abu Dhabi

418

830

898

Abuja

125

178

179

200

208

208

256

Addis Ababa

7

14

22

5

5

11

17

Ankara

86

48

79

75

84

91

77

Athens

137

147

112

149

150

119

145

Auckland

2325

2379

2336

1817

1868

2062

1832

Beijing

453

464

459

484

524

544

618

Berlin

1257

1431

1369

1438

1597

1494

1474

Berne

715

612

676

712

809

800

756

Boston

2105

2135

2006

1771

1831

1788

1794

Brasilia

30

85

102

80

86

115

100

Bratislava

14

19

10

14

29

23

18

Brussels

638

620

650

693

648

749

588

Bucharest

15

22

42

38

46

50

60

Budapest

44

74

49

53

64

71

64

Buenos Aires

246

265

262

211

178

205

162

Cairo

149

174

179

213

207

234

271

Canberra

3712

3866

3848

4323

4745

4940

5646

Cardiff

5

6

197

Chicago

1643

2086

2216

2018

1994

1671

1632

Copenhagen

176

186

233

177

246

173

166

Dar-Es-Salaam

38

22

26

34

48

45

46

Edinburgh

71

73

74

76

49

33

Hanoi

16

85

76

76

81

100

Helsinki

72

59

81

78

82

75

85

Kampala

58

35

39

32

31

41

41

Kuala Lumpur

395

361

412

447

426

407

468

Lilongwe

6

15

10

11

Lisbon

160

154

144

122

182

154

143

Ljubljana

19

18

31

21

39

36

29

London

Lusaka

139

123

97

73

86

90

73

Luxembourg

277

258

205

243

240

231

233

Madrid

1427

1389

1317

1464

1439

1442

1502

Maputo

33

64

54

69

49

57

31

Maseru

6

3

9

3

6

3

4

Mexico

176

198

161

165

175

182

138

Moscow

88

105

82

89

85

84

90

New Delhi

107

108

121

109

113

123

138

New York

5523

6006

6036

5558

5486

4960

5281

Nicosia

115

87

96

121

112

125

109

Oslo

93

90

86

104

115

101

101

Ottawa

2285

2353

2374

2113

2159

2173

2128

Paris

1640

1595

1520

1627

1787

1629

1554

Prague

106

107

81

119

76

95

104

Pretoria

2852

3291

3300

2873

2756

2703

2586

Riga

1

7

10

7

4

11

Riyadh

701

785

786

908

671

338

355

Rome

465

443

431

437

459

478

388

San Francisco

3222

3548

3647

3274

3220

3197

3094

Sydney

2939

3092

2777

2803

3005

2959

3282

Seoul

63

78

65

76

69

77

85

Shanghai

75

107

101

86

94

114

113

Singapore

352

327

339

401

435

452

417

Sofia

25

17

20

34

32

37

36

Stockholm

217

239

235

257

276

264

249

Tallinn

19

3

13

6

8

10

7

Tehran

12

11

12

15

8

10

3

Tel Aviv

131

173

128

145

125

179

167

The Hague

851

773

738

705

827

811

730

Tokyo

205

189

177

161

173

158

162

Valetta

1

60

37

47

64

55

75

Vienna

157

182

143

169

173

134

191

Vilnius

1

14

13

8

20

22

Warsaw

64

77

67

59

83

116

85

Washington

986

936

830

846

769

769

739

The following table outlines passports issued in Ireland from 2006 to 2012.

-

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

Passports

536,265

526,916

496,551

491,527

522,691

534,127

561,710

Emergency Passports

1157

1116

902

848

482

534

323

An annual revenue/cost statement for Passport Service for the last ten years (period 2003-2012) is set out below. Passport revenues and costs are recorded collectively covering Embassies abroad and offices at home.

-

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

Revenue

€23,426,000

€30,135,000

€32,651,000

€30,856,000

€30,544,000

Current

€19,965,000

€21,267,000

€29,741,000

€33,736,000

€42,606,000

Capital

€4,163,000

€6,303,000

€6,752,000

€7,569,000

€153,000

Total Costs*

€24,128,000

€27,810,000

€37,959,000

€42,332,000

€42,759,000

-

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

Revenue

€29,720,000

€31,687,000

€32,995,000

€35,880,000

€39,834,000

Current

€37,723,000

€36,245,000

€34,135,000

€31,363,000

€33,281,000

Capital

€435,000

€467,000

€1,625,000

€295,000

€0

Total Costs*

€38,158,000

€36,712,000

€35,760,000

€31,658,000

€33,281,000

*The cost figures do not include the cost of a range of shared services provided to the Passport Service e.g. financial management, human resource management and legal services provided by the Department.

Question No. 169 answered with Question No. 98.
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