# Birth Certificate

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# Newborns

Parents face child benefit lag due to long delays in birth registration

The delay, caused by the HSE cyber attack, has been reduced from 16 weeks

Delays are due to the summer's cyber attack on the HSE, Aoife Barry reports

Parents have been reporting delays of two to three months for registration

Fears for vulnerable parents who can't access child benefit due to the delay

22.6k

Oct 3rd 2021, 12:05 AM

# no consensus

Adopted people will not get automatic access to birth records over parent's right to privacy

Minister Zappone said she was “personally deeply disappointed” that a consensus could not be reached on the issue.

15.6k

Dec 11th 2019, 10:25 PM

# Birth Cert

'If something happens to me, my wife would have no rights to her own daughter': Families criticise government for law delay

Under the current system labels of ‘Mother’ and ‘Father’ exist on birth certificates.

26.0k

Jan 16th 2019, 6:08 PM

# Adoption

'Lies, secrets and silences': Some people with illegally registered births will never know

Minister Zappone has appointed an independent reviewer to oversee an analysis of tens of thousands of records.

10.4k

Jun 14th 2018, 5:08 PM

Voices

'I dread registering my child because I can't put his other parent on the birth certificate'

It breaks my heart that a member of our little family is being left out of the first document our son has to declare his status as an Irish citizen, writes Sarah Stone McDevitt.

78.1k

Feb 3rd 2018, 7:30 PM

# PSC

"It is the worst form of humiliation" - Woman denied Public Services Card due to adopted status

“I just burst out crying,” the 50-year-old woman says. “I really think this is the highest form of discrimination.”

61.0k

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Jan 21st 2018, 12:05 AM

# singled out

'I've had to tell more people in the last few months than in my entire life' - Man denied Public Services Card because he's adopted

“This shambolic process is now making me feel like a second class citizen – I’m being treated unequally because I’m adopted.”

89.2k

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Nov 6th 2017, 12:05 AM

# Let's Get Digital

Going digital: Rollout begins for e-health records from babies' birth

The new system is the first national electronic patient chart for maternity anywhere in the world.

15.8k

Dec 5th 2016, 12:15 PM

# Brexit

80% rise in applications for Irish birth certificates from UK since Brexit vote

The Passport Service has also reported an increase in queries about entitlements to Irish passports.

16.9k

Jul 1st 2016, 4:45 PM

Voices

Column: The day I had to prove I was Irish – and failed

Both my parents are Irish, I live in Ireland and I hold an Irish passport. But that wasn’t enough when I was called interview for America’s coveted ‘greencard lottery’, writes Stephen Collins.

5.3k

Mar 22nd 2014, 12:00 PM