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05/01/2017
Surge In Number Of Irish Passports Issued In 2016
Almost 68,000 people in Northern Ireland have applied for Irish passports since the EU referendum, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade confirmed.
Minister Charlie Flanagan also said application levels from Great Britain increased by 40.6% to 64,996.
He said: "2016 was an exceptionally busy year for the Passport Service with a record number of passports issued. This represents a growth of 9% over 2016 and I expect this trend to continue in the coming years. In 2016, 24,443 citizens were issued with our innovative new passport card, allowing them to travel to EU/EEA countries plus Switzerland with only a credit-card sized passport.
"There was a strong increase in demand for passports in the first half of the year. This was due to a variety of factors including the fact that more Irish people traveled in the first half of the year; we also had the Euros Championships and a historical spike in applications from 2006 feeding through in the 10-year renewal cycle."
A total of 733,060 Irish passports were issued in 2016.
(CD/LM)
Minister Charlie Flanagan also said application levels from Great Britain increased by 40.6% to 64,996.
He said: "2016 was an exceptionally busy year for the Passport Service with a record number of passports issued. This represents a growth of 9% over 2016 and I expect this trend to continue in the coming years. In 2016, 24,443 citizens were issued with our innovative new passport card, allowing them to travel to EU/EEA countries plus Switzerland with only a credit-card sized passport.
"There was a strong increase in demand for passports in the first half of the year. This was due to a variety of factors including the fact that more Irish people traveled in the first half of the year; we also had the Euros Championships and a historical spike in applications from 2006 feeding through in the 10-year renewal cycle."
A total of 733,060 Irish passports were issued in 2016.
(CD/LM)
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