Mr. Ciaran Feely:

I do wish to comment on it and I should also address the question posed by Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh on the expected timescale. When a gender recognition certificate arrives in the General Register Office, I imagine that registration will be completed in a matter of days and that a further certificate will then be issued to the person involved. It would depend on the agreement of said person to the effect that the particulars to be recorded in the register were correct and that there was no question or dispute about them.

In the context of intersex conditions and as Ms Ryan pointed out, provisions on the correction of errors in registers are contained in the Civil Registration Act 2004. There is nothing to prevent a person affected by an intersex condition or his or her parent from applying for the correction of an error in the gender indicator in the entry in the register of births.