Sir, – It has recently been brought home to me that I may be a second class citizen, not deserving of the attentions of the State apparatus because of a choice made towards achieving delivery of a renewed passport.
But why this discrimination, one might ask? Well, I chose to renew at the post office, thus giving my eyes a break from the screen while also supporting the post office, to which I paid an additional fee.
However, the Department of Foreign Affairs certainly doesn’t value me as it ought. Firstly, the Department advises that my renewal by post will take eight weeks instead of the 10 days offered via online applications. This is discrimination.
Secondly, the department has not upheld its contract with me, I am now nine weeks and one day without my renewed passport. – Yours, etc,
RM Block
CAITRIÓNA LAWLOR,
Mount Merrion,
Co Dublin.
