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How do we know this particular passport is not the real deal?
Because they are responsible for the mess!Not sure why you are looking to blame the Department of Foreign Affairs though. Am sure we are no the only Country that has forged passports hanging around.
So True.No need to forge them when passing a few bob a politician would get you a real one.
Sorry, I still don't get how some Russian spies decide to use a fake Irish passport and it is the department of foreign affairs fault. It like saying that the central bank is to blame for people trying to use fake money.
Expel the Russian Ambassador. Surely the precedent has been set?
Well if the Central Bank would give out money notes that are easy to forge I most certainly would blame them if I get one of those.
The fault of the Department is that the passports still have not the same security standard as other countries and the system we use to give out passports is very easy to manipulate as the recent example of Dubai has shown.
But I guess one fake passport more or less does not worry anybody.
Of course it is a problem and the Irish Government should take the same steps as they did with Israel by expelling a Russian diplomat/spy. I just don't get why you are blaming the Department of Foreign Affairs. It's taking civil service bashing too far. From what I gather the passport involved is pre 2005. The passports currently issued by the Department are the same standard and contain the same security features as the US or other European passports.
Every passport or document can be faked to some extent.
To be honest, the whole thing sounds like a bad spy novel. They were hardly handing over State secrets considering the FBI let them loose for years.
There is no difference, the minister must take responsibility for the problems in his department (where fake passports are just another symptom) , just like the responsible manager in M would have to take the responsibility.
Irish passports by the way don’t have the latest security standards like some of other EU countries.
Irish passports only have a chip that has the picture not finger prints , Irish passport while printed on a plastic card don’t have the special coating like other countries passports, Irish passports can be applied via mail with minimal documents while other countries require in person applications with strict controls.
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