Written answers
Tuesday, 21 October 2025
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Birth Certificates
Ruth Coppinger (Dublin West, Solidarity)
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542. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if it is possible to register a birth with a different gender other than male and female on a birth certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57389/25]
Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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The information surrounding the birth of a child is provided to the Civil Registration Service through a birth notification form.
The only genders that can be recorded on this form are "male", "female" or where it is not possible to medically determine the gender of the child, "indeterminate".
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