Employees dealing with customers in the passport office will more than double - increasing in number from 60 to 140 - in two weeks' time.
That is according to an email due to be sent to Fine Gael politicians by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Simon Coveney.
There will also be a new initiative to speed up the Garda witnessing of first time applications for passports for children which is currently leading to delays.
There has been criticism of the passport service lately, after many families said that they were missing out on holidays due to very long passport delays.
At present about 50 applications a day are stalled and need new consent forms because of the inability of the passport office to contact gardaí who had witnessed applications.
It is understood that from now on, a daily list will be transmitted between the passport office and An Garda Síochána which will mean applications will not be cancelled.
Mr Coveney's note said the passport service is seeing record demand with 560,000 passports issued to date in 2022, which is 90,000 more passports than were issued at this point of the year in 2019.
He said 80% of applications received by the Passport Service are renewal applications for both adults and children.
