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Enacted Dáil
No. 30 of 2007

Passports Bill 2007

Public bill · Government · Presented

The Passports Bill 2007 would create a comprehensive legal framework for issuing Irish passports, confirming citizens’ right to apply while requiring proof of identity and citizenship. It would regulate personal and biometric data, children’s passports, emergency travel documents, diplomatic passports, passport names and validity, and the cancellation or reporting of lost passports. It would also create offences and penalties for fraud, misuse, forgery, sale or damage of passports, including offences committed abroad, and allow charges for passports and consular services.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to provide for the issue by the Minister for Foreign Affairs on the authority of the Government of passports to Irish citizens to be used by them as evidence of identity and citizenship, to provide for the processing of personal data, including biometric data, for the issue of passports and the maintenance of the integrity of the system for issuing passports, to provide for the cancellation and surrender of passports in certain circumstances, to provide for offences relating to passports, to provide for the issue of emergency travel certificates in certain circumstances, to amend the Diplomatic and Consular Officers (Provision of Services) Act 1993 and to provide for related matters

Last updated 12 April 2018

Sponsor
  • Minister for Foreign Affairs Primary
Progress
  • First Stage
    Dáil
  • Second Stage
    Dáil
  • Committee Stage
    Dáil
  • Report Stage
    Dáil
  • Fifth Stage
    Dáil
  • Second Stage
    Seanad
  • Committee Stage
    Seanad
  • Report Stage
    Seanad
  • Fifth Stage
    Seanad Enacted
  • Enacted
    Enacted
Debates
  • Passports Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages.
    Seanad
  • Passports Bill 2007: Committee Stage.
    Seanad
  • Passports Bill 2007: Second Stage.
    Seanad
  • Passports Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage.
    Dáil
  • Passports Bill 2007: Order for Report Stage.
    Dáil
  • Passports Bill 2007: Report Stage.
    Dáil
  • Passports Bill 2007: Financial Resolution.
    Dáil
  • Passports Bill 2007: Referral to Select Committee.
    Dáil
  • Passports Bill 2007: Order for Second Stage.
    Dáil
  • Passports Bill 2007: Second Stage.
    Dáil
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