Parents and gardai signing forms on different dates and uncontactable witnesses are the two biggest hold-ups in securing a child’s passport, it has emerged.
A TD revealed the news following a summer of hell when many families missed holidays because new passports didn’t arrive on time due to mistakes unwittingly made on application forms.
Cavan-Monaghan TD Niamh Smyth said Oireachtas members are inundated with hundreds of complaints, queries and requests for help from the public every year in relation to passport applications.
