Barry Andrews (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

My official has given me a prompt. Section 22 of the Civil Registration Act 2004 provides:

The father of a child who was not married to the mother of the child at the date of his or her birth or at any time during the period of 10 months before such birth shall not be required to give information under this Act about the birth.

The registrar shall enter the father's details in the register if the mother and father jointly request this or on the production to the registrar of a court order or statutory declaration naming the father of the child.