Written answers

Tuesday, 21 October 2025

Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection

Birth Certificates

Photo of Ruth CoppingerRuth 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]

Photo of Dara CallearyDara 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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