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Why are passports so expensive?

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  • #32
    MrStuffins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,646 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins


    clappyhappy wrote: »
    Its €80 for 10 years which works out at €8 a year, less than the cost of a packet of cigs (i think) or a half decent bottle of wine. Surely that is affordable.

    Oh, it's affordable.

    It's just that SHE doesn't want to pay for it! :rolleyes:


  • #33
    MrStuffins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,646 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins


    efb wrote: »
    Spain had Sitges, cock and ass on tap! Don't diss Spain

    Well "tapping Ireland's ass" is one way of putting what went on the other night!


  • #34
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    HardLuckWoman wrote: »
    Yeah, been thinking of going off to australia for a year. So don't want to be digging into my savings as it wont be long going. Especially €80 for a passport.

    Who's paying for the visa? If 80 euro is going to make a significant dent in your savigns, Aussie for a year on the same budget is a biiiiiiig mistake.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #35
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    MrStuffins wrote: »
    Well "tapping Ireland's ass" is one way of putting what went on the other night!

    Cesc can any fcuking time he wants! And Xabi!


  • #36
    PucaMama
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭PucaMama


    clappyhappy wrote: »
    Its €80 for 10 years which works out at €8 a year, less than the cost of a packet of cigs (i think) or a half decent bottle of wine. Surely that is affordable.
    Yeah but its 80 all at once not 8 euro installments. If your not working its not cheap.


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  • #37
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,334 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    That's cheap! I have to pay over €100 for my British passport when applying from Ireland. Its worth every penny to see the "Royal Brittanic Majesty...." message inscribed on the inside front cover. I was going to say God Bless her Royal Majesty but its pointless as i don't believe in God.


  • #38
    mattjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    I think the Israeli's might have a few , worth giving Mossad a call.


  • #39
    H2UMrsRobinson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 777 ✭✭✭H2UMrsRobinson


    OP - I'm not interested in your personal circumstances, I don't know what type of welfare you're on (disability, single parents etc) and I'm glad you've saved enough to be able to go on holiday, I hope you have a nice break. However as a passport lasts 10 years it's effectively only costing you €8 per year or 15c a week so I think you may just have to swallow the initial outlay. My UK passport cost me €168 last time I renewed it via the embassy, so count your blessings and bon voyage.

    EDIT; Australia !!! there was me thinking you got a cheap week in the sun somewhere with your savings. What they all said ↑↑


  • #40
    coolhandluke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 249 ✭✭coolhandluke


    PucaMama wrote: »
    Absolute b*llocks.

    What is.....that people on welfare go to santa ponza for 2 weeks and have done for the last 10 years ?


  • #41
    MrStuffins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,646 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins


    Deleted User wrote: »
    That's cheap! I have to pay over €100 for my British passport when applying from Ireland. Its worth every penny to see the "Royal Brittanic Majesty...." message inscribed on the inside front cover. I was going to say God Bless her Royal Majesty but its pointless as i don't believe in God.

    If you get the Social Welfare to pay for that passport and don't start a thread about it here it will be the biggest waste of AH fodder ever!


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  • #42
    Zebra3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,299 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    HardLuckWoman wrote: »
    I need to renew my passport sometime. Well before the year is out. But its €80. I don't remember it being so expensive when i first applied. Does the dole/social welfare help with paying for the expense of it?

    Give the murderers in the Mossad a shout.

    They'll do it for a few shekels.

    Edit-Beaten to it. Damn!!! :(


  • #43
    Snowie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    serosuly folks its a passport your responsibility to pay for...

    I was on the dole i payed for the thing my self its not up to government to pay for everything... way i see it not doing this for the thumbs up...


  • #44
    Shryke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭Shryke


    You don't want to spend your own money on your own passport. Wtf am I reading?
    Sure make your own with a bit of cardboard.


  • #45
    PucaMama
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭PucaMama


    coolhandluke wrote: »
    PucaMama wrote: »
    Absolute b*llocks.

    What is.....that people on welfare go to santa ponza for 2 weeks and have done for the last 10 years ?

    That EVERYONE on benefits does it.


  • #46
    Kamjana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 246 ✭✭Kamjana


    You are going to Australia for a year on holidays and you dont want to use your savings :confused:


  • #47
    Jester252
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,533 ✭✭✭Jester252


    Just get the social welfare to buy you a pilot uniform and just walk onto the plane. Nobody would stop you


  • #48
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,183 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Its worth every penny to see the "Royal Brittanic Majesty...." message inscribed on the inside front cover.

    Do you miss not seeing her image on the postage stamps over here ?

    Maybe we should ask the GPO to issue a commerative stamp with a picture of her arsé on it.

    So you could enjoy licking it all the more. :pac:


  • #49
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    I can't help but reply but I know she's trolling.

    She's a master.


  • #50
    plein de force
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,148 ✭✭✭plein de force


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    Honestly OP.

    Just going by what you post on boards every single thing that normal grown up adults are able to do or comprehend by themselves you seem to have trouble with.

    How are you still alive?

    Hahah, i just went on to have a look at the thread she starts and jesus you're right, she needs help with everything. The mind boggles


  • #51
    Kurz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 786 ✭✭✭Kurz


    I'm going to the Bahamas this year with my dole. Spain is for the short-term unemployed. Those noobs.


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  • #52
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,334 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Kurz wrote: »
    I'm going to the Bahamas this year with my dole. Spain is for the short-term unemployed. Those noobs.
    Are you going to start a thread looking for someone to sign on for you while on your extended holiday?


  • #53
    Kurz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 786 ✭✭✭Kurz


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Are you going to start a thread looking for someone to sign on for you while on your extended holiday?

    PM me, we can negotiate rates.


  • #54
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Don't give this a woman a passport!!!!

    She's going to use it to smuggle peanuts!!!!


  • #55
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    I can't help but reply but I know she's trolling.

    She's a master.

    She (he?)'s pretty good, alright.


  • #56
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,183 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Kurz wrote: »
    I'm going to the Bahamas this year with my dole. Spain is for the short-term unemployed. Those noobs.

    I have my name down for a trip to the World Cup or Winter Olympics in 2 years. They're only paying for the first 500 who apply cos of the recession thing thats going on.

    Get in there quick man.


  • #57
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    I can't help but reply but I know she's trolling.

    She's a master.

    I don't think so

    Started a thread about traveling in Personal Issues

    Trolling here can be a laugh but trolling in PI is just wrong. Pretty low


  • #58
    fasttalkerchat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    I don't think so

    Started a thread about traveling in Personal Issues

    Trolling here can be a laugh but trolling in PI is just wrong. Pretty low

    (S)he's a troll. Look at their previous posts. Some funny ones though.


  • #59
    Smidge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Smidge


    What's wrong with someone on the dole going away on hols?

    Shure didn't Seanie have a fine time in Poznan???


    :pac:


  • #60
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    mishkalucy wrote: »
    What's wrong with someone on the dole going away on hols?

    Shure didn't Seanie have a fine time in Poznan???


    :pac:

    He started the 'fields of atherny' singsong...


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  • #61
    Kurz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 786 ✭✭✭Kurz


    efb wrote: »
    He started the 'fields of atherny' singsong...

    He probably loaned Mick Wallace the money to buy the actual fields of Athenry and turn them into a sushi bar which has since become a ghost sushi bar.


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