Clare Daly (Dublin North, Socialist Party)
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To ask the Minister for Social Protection the procedures to be followed when a person wants to change information on a birth certificate; and her plans, if any, to change this process. [14765/13]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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The provisions allowing for the amendment of entries in the register of births are contained in the Civil Registration Act 2004.

Section 63 of the Act allows for the correction of clerical or factual errors in an entry, upon application to a Superintendent Registrar where satisfactory evidence that an error has occurred is presented by the applicant.

A person may also apply to the Registrar General to have an enquiry conducted under the provisions of section 65 of the Act, which allows the Registrar General to examine any entry to determine whether it is correct and complete and, where appropriate, and subject to the provision of satisfactory evidence, to authorise the correction and/or completion of the entry.

Information contained in a birth entry that is neither erroneous nor incomplete may not be amended.

There are no plans to amend any of the provisions contained in the sections referred to above.