Ms Lisa Kiernan:

It is good to see some friendly faces who I remember from my time working in Leinster House. I was born post 1970. The best example I can offer relates to when I went in to get my pass to allow me to enter Leinster House. I provided a form of identification on the basis of which I was Garda vetted. That identification was false because my mother's birth surname I now know not to be correct. It is not what is on her birth certificate. For evermore, or until the records are changed, every time I go to renew my driver's licence or do anything else that requires a mother's birth surname or maiden name, for which one is often asked on the phone, through computers or wherever else, I will be passing on information which I now know to be untrue.

For a time before we were alerted to this, I was giving information that I knew was possibly untrue but I did not have an alternative to the information. Now I am doing that constantly. I can only really speak on behalf of our group and personally can only really speak for my mum and me. When my mum got married, her marriage certificate had her birth surname as it is on her birth certificate. Everything else can go with this, whether it is a mortgage application or anything else. It is very important to people.

My mum does not want to have everything changed. She has lived for 72 years as she thought she was or is. We want acknowledgement of what is the truth. These people are entitled to it and I am entitled to it. We want it to be legal when we hand over legal documents.