Written answers

Tuesday, 8 February 2022

Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection

Birth Certificates

Photo of Seán HaugheySeán Haughey (Dublin Bay North, Fianna Fail)
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469. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an Irish citizen whose name is in English on their birth certificate can have their birth certificate reissued with the name in Irish in cases in which their passport has their name in Irish and in which this is necessary to apply for dual citizenship in a non-European Union country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6594/22]

Photo of Heather HumphreysHeather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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I can inform the Deputy that a birth certificate is a certified extract of information contained in the Register of Births. Where the English version of a person's name has been registered, as given to a registrar by their parent(s), this must be replicated in a birth certificate.

There is no provision in Civil Registration law which allows a person's name, as it appears in the Register of Births, to be translated into Irish on a birth certificate.

I trust this clarifies matters for the Deputy.

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