Calls for urgent upscaling of passport service as 1.7m applications due in the coming months

Labour TD Sean Sherlock has called for a second passport printing office in Cork.

Calls have been made to set up a second passport printing machine in Cork to deal with a massive influx of applications already this year.

As the country reopens and families rush to book foreign summer holidays, the passport office is set to be flooded with up to 1.7m applications in the coming weeks and months.