Seanad debates

Wednesday, 18 February 2004

Civil Registration Bill 2003: Committee Stage.

 

1:00 pm

Photo of Mary CoughlanMary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)

That is correct. By right, if anyone accepts money for a child — we all have our views on that issue — that child probably would be in a legal limbo because if the biological father's name was on the birth certificate, then that child would have a father. However, that man's wife would not be that child's mother.

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