Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 11 June 2024
445. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Social Protection what plans there are to allow Irish citizens born abroad who are not eligible to be listed in the foreign birth register to be granted a gender recognition certificate. [24851/24]
View answerSection 9 of the Gender Recognition Act 2015 sets out the conditions which a person is required to meet in order to qualify for a gender recognition certificate.
The applicant must meet one of the following three qualifying criteria:
• their birth or adoption is registered in the State,
• they have become an Irish citizen by having their birth registered in the Foreign Births Register maintained by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, or
• they are ordinarily resident in the State.
The application process was set up to cater for applicants born in the State, born abroad but ordinarily resident in the State and born and living abroad but with an entry in the Foreign Births Register.
