Brian Hayes (Fine Gael)

I move amendment No. 23:

In page 36, before section 43, to insert the following new section:

43.---The date of birth of a dead person shall be recorded on the death certificate.".

Section 43 refers to the place of death and the circumstances involved. We suggest that the date of birth of a dead person shall be recorded on a death certificate. I was not aware that was not the case.

On Second Stage the Minister informed me that going forward there would be a cross-tabulation between people who die and their birth certificates. I raised an issue with the Minister that had been brought to my attention in that it was still possible to obtain, for illegal purposes, birth certificates of people who had died and she said, in the course of her reply, that from cross-tabulation in the future she would be able to clamp down on that.