Passport office staff refusing to deal with public from 1pm tomorrow

[Ecoguy]

Lucky you.

As a committed and dedicated environmentalist you of course will confirm that your mode of transport will exclude the use of environmentally damaging jet aeroplanes.

I'm volunteering, part of my work will include the promotion of environmental responsiblity through tree planting ie. carbon offsetting- do you have a problem with that or would you rather I travelled by banana boat??

[Conor]

The point is that CPSU, and their apologists on this forum, have taken it upon themselves to decide who among the applicants is a genuine, deserving case and who isn't.

Well, the apologists on this forum obviously haven't, because they don't work there.

Nor has the CPSU. Distinguishing genuine emergencies from other last-minute (through fecklessness) applications has always been done as a matter for the DFA. The remainder just have to wait their turn. Separating the wheat from the chaff is nothing to do with the union, or with the industrial action.

[FalseFlag]

There are two main areas of concern for staff in these offices.

1. Their Unions are exposing them to litigation taken by members of the public. It should be noted by Union members that as well as their Unions, they too can be personally sued in Irish Courts by any member of the public who has suffered financial loss and/or stress as a consequence of this dispute.

2. Adopting these negative industrial relations positions will antagonise the general public, and may expose individual members of the unions to physical and verbal assault and intimidation by the general public.

The Union leaders are comfortable on their fat cat salaries and expenses while the workers toil and try in vain to deflect the public's ire!

Illegitimi non carborundum!

[The Field Marshal]

What stage are you at using passport tracking?? - Thankfully mine has been approved according to the passport.ie tracking service for an urgent trip to Africa in the middle of next month

I'm volunteering, part of my work will include the promotion of environmental responsiblity through tree planting ie. carbon offsetting- do you have a problem with that or would you rather I travelled by banana boat??

So you can now get a passport on the basis that tree planting in Africa
is somehow urgent!

The carbon you burn on your jet trip to Africa will take many hundreds if not thousands of trees to absorb over many many decades.

This trip does not appear urgent to me at all.
Why dont you plant the trees in Ireland?

If you were serious about the environment you would travel overland on this
non-essential journey.

Speaking of banana boats there should be no difficulty in obtaining passage on same in this current Republic.

[Conor]

1. Their Unions are exposing them to litigation taken by members of the public. It should be noted by Union members that as well as their Unions, they too can be personally sued in Irish Courts by any member of the public who has suffered financial loss and/or stress as a consequence of this dispute.

I doubt that very much.

[Conor]

So you can now get a passport on the basis that tree planting in Africa
is somehow urgent!

No, you can get a passport if you apply well in advance. Ecoguy applied about three weeks for a trip he's taking in the second half of next month. Trees don't really have anything to do with it, it obviously hasn't been treated as an urgent application.

[EvotingMachine0197]

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If you were serious about the environment you would travel overland on this
non-essential journey.....

Or wire the money to Africa and ask someone there to plant the trees ?

[sparkey321]

They need a passport though, which takes time to process. Hence the (obvious) relevance of the question (barring the fact that the original poster was referring to his mate, not himself).

A 10 day wait according to advertised service (or 2 weeks) they allowed 5 weeks or 2.5 times the advertised time.

So no when they booked the holiday is of no relevance as they allowed what should have been more than enough time.

[HarshBuzz]

No, you can get a passport if you apply well in advance.

or if you pay for it

Passport Express costs more but the turnaround time is 10 days

you're not seriously suggesting that people who use Passport Express are somehow irresponsible or feckless?

edit: I see sparkey beat me to it!!

[Boggle]

There are two main areas of concern for staff in these offices.

1. Their Unions are exposing them to litigation taken by members of the public. It should be noted by Union members that as well as their Unions, they too can be personally sued in Irish Courts by any member of the public who has suffered financial loss and/or stress as a consequence of this dispute.

Any examples of that ever happening or are you making an (educated or otherwise) guess?

Surely the backlog though is mainly down to 2 out of 3 printing machines being out of service?? (Assuming the one remaining machine is working at full capacity already)

Personally I wish they would either sh*t or get off the pot at this stage as I'm bored of it. Either put it up to the govt to sort it straight away out or accept whats happening and look for a better paid job...