Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Independent)
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Question 115: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the scheme to computerise the registers of births, marriages and deaths will be fully operational; and the stage the project is at. [23171/05]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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An tArd-Chláraitheoir, the Registrar-General, is the person with statutory responsibility for the administration of the civil registration system in Ireland. I have made inquiries of the Registrar-General and the position is as follows.

The civil registration computer system has been fully operational across all areas of the Health Service Executive since the end of 2004. The functionality deployed includes search, issue of certificates and registration of life events. Currently, historic data are available in respect of births back to 1864, deaths to 1924 and marriages to 1920.