Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 135:

In page 59, to delete lines 10 and 11 and substitute the following: “(b) subject to paragraph (e), the child is no longer the child of any person other than a person named as a parent in the order,”.

These amendments, in combination, seek to confirm that, where a parental order is granted, any person who is not named on the order is not a parent of the relevant child while, in respect of a person named on the order who had previously been granted a declaration of parentage under section 35 of the Status of Children Act 1987, that declaration is unaffected.