Firstly why is this thread on shooting the breeze?
No where does it say that passports are at the compliment of those who issue them.
That includes emergency ones.
This is a right to each and every citizen, and you are very wrong to say we have come to regard this as an entitlement,IT IS AN ENTITLEMENT!
Unless you tell me that it is not part of the passport offices remit to supply emergency passports?
The logical conclusion to draw from your post above is to say that every one of the hundreds of people on the queues for the past week all want emergency passports.
Here is a piece taken from the DFA website;
Public Counter Urgent Fee
Payable, upon proof of urgent travel, for passports required to be issued on the same or next day following application. This fee is in addition to the appropriate passport fee as set out above.
Please note that this is not an 'on demand' service and is only available for same/next day genuine urgent travel
€55 -Adult
€30 -Child
Out of Hours Emergency Service Administration Fee
This is for the issue of a temporary passport of limited validity by the Department's out of hours emergency service.
Subsequently a fresh application must be made for a regular passport along with payment of the appropriate fee as set out.".
It looks to me like ,we can in fact be issued and in fact are entitled to an emergency service if required and not at the whim of the employees of the passport office.
Therefore :
It's not unreasonable to expect a particular service if the State actually offer this service,whether that be an emergency passport or a passport within ten days or one month.
I detect so much resentment towards the public who avail of the service of any of the above that its almost palpable.It is the same in many areas of the public service .
Of course it must be said that the ones who are resentful and militant and jobsworths are the ones who cause the PS to get such a bad name and spoil the atmosphere for the others who have to work among them.
I know this as I was that soldier.
The bully boy tactics employed by the militants among us, frustrate and halt any initiative by the great workers in the PS.
I hope their time is now up and those who want to do a decent days work without this hassle will be the ones who remain.