An Oireachtas committee investigating long delays for people waiting for passports said yesterday the problem was likely to be resolved within two weeks.
The committee, chaired by Fine Gael TD Pat Breen, said the Passport Office had been receiving 5,000 applications a day during the peak months between April and July, but had the capacity to handle only 4,000. Mr Breen said a passport application was taking 14 days to process – down from 21 when the delays were at their height – and would return to the target of 10 days within two weeks.