Departmental Records
Seanad Éireann — 2021-05-18
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Colm Brophy (FG), Dublin South-West

The functioning of the Passport Office has significantly improved, as Senator Mullen might have been aware if he had attended the other times I talked about it, and we are clearing that backlog.
As for the matter the Senator did raise today, the staff are working diligently to carry out their work. There is a delay because the service required a certain amount of space and way of delivering the service, pre-Covid-19. I am sure Senator Mullen would not want to put staff's health and safety at risk by continuing in the manner in which we were doing this pre-Covid-19.

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Sitting date: 2021-05-18