Olivia Mitchell (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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Question 116: To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to make it compulsory that fathers should be named on their children's birth certificates; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24377/12]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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The Law Reform Commission, in its report Legal Aspects of Family Relationships, makes recommendations relating to the conduct of family relationships, including compulsory joint registration of the birth of a child where the parents are not married to each other.

It is my intention to seek the approval of the Government later this year for the drafting of heads of a bill to amend the Civil Registration Act 2004 to include the recommendations of the Law Reform Commission as they apply to civil registration matters.