Delightful.
You may have noticed that a few electronic passport control gates popped up in Dublin Aiport a few years ago.
Instead of going through Immigration and having your passport checked by a human being, Irish passport holders could opt to use ‘e-gates’ – a gate that scanned your passport’s biometric chip, took your photo, and sent you on your way.
With just one immigration officer able to man a variety of e-gates, it made the whole process of returning to the country a lot easier, and more importantly, faster.
Those small number of e-gates were only there on a trial basis, and have since been removed.
However, they are set to return and will be up and running by the end of this year – and this time, there’ll be a lot of them.
Twenty e-gates will be introduced to Dublin Airport by the end of 2017. Ten will be in Terminal 1, and a further ten in Terminal 2.
Minister for Justice and Equality Charlie Flanagan confirmed the returning of the e-gates recently, which will not only move things along a lot faster, but also make airport security more efficient.
Anyone over the age of 18 and holding a passport card or biometric passport will be able to use the new gates, making the trip through arrivals quick and painless.
Sounds good to us.
