Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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424. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the Civil Registration Service will be able to accept posted paper registrations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57142/21]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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I can inform the Deputy that the requirements for registering births are set out in Part 3 of the Civil Registration Act 2004 and these include the attendance by the parent(s) at a registration office.

The Deputy will be aware that temporary measures were introduced following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic which permitted the registration of births without the need for the parent(s) to attend at a local Civil Registration Office. These measures expired on the 30th September 2021. As a consequence it will not be possible for the Civil Registration Service to carry out registrations without the parent(s) attending to sign the register.

I trust this clarifies matters for the Deputy.