If you’re in a hurry, didn’t the Israeli embassy do a good job last year allegedly? You could always try there.

On the bright side, think of all those passport processing fees adding to state revenue… We’ll make a profit on emigration yet :-)

Maybe open more offices and employ more to deal with extra demand ?

Rod, don’t think it is. 250 in total which includes people who arrive and demand on the spot. passport office offer 5 and 10 business day turnaround through passport express and an post.

And the government will no doubt be delighted to announce that 0.02% less people are signing on the dole. mmmmmmm I wonder why that is

Eh 250 a day, don’t they have an entire dept. Looking after the applications!

Good that they’re busy

Yeah they should get Israel to throw a few together for them

Fan of TV3′s Paul Connolly, are we Derek?

what do they work at con o’dom?

What do they be doing all day…I feel another strike cmg on.

If you try to renew your Irish passport in to renew from England is even worse! You send all info and money to embassy in London where they then send it on to Dublin It takes ages my last one took 3 months and many phone calls. I’m due to renew in 2014 maybe I should start now. English passports take 2 weeks. Where are we going wrong?

Expect the delays to be even longer if you belong to any marginalised group. I have Roma friends who originally came here from Poland and whose 3 children were born here and are Irish citizens. When they went to the passport office in Molesworth Street to get a passport for their youngest child they were faced with what I can only describe as outright racism. The information on the passport form was checked and double checked and queried, they were kept waiting for hours on end and then told to come back another day. (not easy when they had to walk from Dublin 7 with baby & buggy, etc., often in the rain). They were sent away to get letters from the Social Welfare Office and their family Doctor. When they presented those they were told the application form was not signed properly at the Garda Station – implying it was a fake. They had to go back to the Bridewell Station, it was a Friday and they were told the Garda who signed the form was off until Monday so that involved waiting over the weekend. When I went with them to try and help I was told if I persisted in querying their continuing refusals that they would walk away and not talk to me. The family had already booked a flight to visit family in London and the Passport Office made them wait until minutes before closing time the day before the flight before eventually issueing the passport. The “lady” who dealt with them was an absolutely horrible person and when we complained to her Supervisor he took her side and the delays and obstruction actually got worse.
My only other dealings with the Passport Office was in trying to renew an out of date passport for a booked flight. I was told “no-can-do” of course, so missed the flight. There was lady there who was in the same situation, she was going to England, flights booked, but also had to cancel her trip. She told me that in England you can walk in and get a passport renewed on the same day!