This is about the fifth time I have brought this issue up. I am back to the passport and ID issue of members of the Garda identifying that they sign the passport application. I am back to the parent of a first-time applicant. The Passport Office is unable to get in touch with the garda who signed the application. The office has contacted the same Garda station four times. Surely at this stage even the Tánaiste can recognise that this is a vast waste of everybody's resources. The Passport Office is involved. It is a very labour-intensive exercise for An Garda Síochána, who do not have time to go out and do the 30 minutes traffic policing. They are answering the phone unnecessarily. They are identifying twice. In the modern day, we have to identify a system that alleviates this type of incident. I have asked the Tánaiste a number of times to devise a system where members of the Garda do not have to be contacted to verify that the person to whom they are giving the application is the person. Does the Tánaiste not understand me?

Is the Deputy suggesting taking the Garda out of the process of vetting passports? Is she suggesting that we take out the security dimension that is essential to passports?

What is the security dimension? Why would they contact a garda?

In a passport?

No, we cannot have a conversation about this. If you want to have a conversation, have it outside, but not in here. There is a question and an answer. Tánaiste, do we have an answer?

The Tánaiste does not understand the question.

Through the Chair, two or three years ago there was a lot of concern in the House about backlogs and delays in getting passports. The speed at which one can get passports today online is quite dramatic. It is tremendous all round. More staff have been recruited and we continue to do this. It is a good service and it is responding well. When there are individual problems it equally responds well when people make presentations.

Not for first-time applicants.

The real issue with passports is that we work with people and we can just get the procedures correct but there is always a security dimension. We have it in other debates in the House on other issues, where people are condemning the Government for the absence of security dimensions.