Originally Posted by Gordon Deegan
Last year, the Department of Foreign Affairs issued 733,060 passports which represented a 9 per cent increase on 2015 and the projected one million passport applications follows last year’s Census confirming that Ireland has a population of 4.76 million.
The number of passports issued earned the Department of Foreign Affairs €46.74 million.
Last year, it cost the Department €31.63 million to operate the passport service. This included the Department employing 233 temporary clerical officers and this was an increase of 62 compared to 2015.