Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I signal my intention to bring an amendment on Report Stage that will introduce a new section 9. The purpose of the amendment will be to remove the requirement for civil partners who have registered their civil partnership in Ireland to have to give the three-month notice when seeking to marry one another. This amendment is to reduce any unnecessary administrative burden on civil partners wishing to marry. The three-month notice period is not required in their case as they will already have complied with that requirement before registering their civil partnership or they will have been exempted by a court order. In all cases they will have established their identities for the registrar and provided all the evidence that is normally needed by the registrar when establishing whether a couple can marry, so I will introduce that amendment on Report Stage.