Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)

This is a once-off opportunity to either amend or change or complete a birth registration, for example where the name which is not originally registered is, for example, in common usage. That happens on a number of occasions.

If I were to accept this amendment, it would result in the possibility of multiple changes of forenames with resulting degradation of the birth record. I have said that there should be only one opportunity to make the change. If we were to remove what the Deputy referred to as the verbiage, one could change the name on a continual basis, and that would not be appropriate. That is why the additional five lines are there among the seven.