Seanad debates
Wednesday, 18 February 2004
Civil Registration Bill 2003: Committee Stage.
4:00 pm
Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
That restriction was in the legislation in 1980 but was taken out sometime in the 1990s. I think this would be very restrictive. We give people a once-off opportunity to change the forename. As the Deputy knows, a year is quite a short period and it was considered restrictive in the 1990s, so it was removed. Maybe it was a Fine Gael Minister who removed it. I am not quite sure.
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