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FAMILIES WILL BE able to register births and deaths online for the first time under, while the Register of Stillbirths will also be expanded.
It’s part of reforms to the Civil Register System that have been announced by Social Protection Minister Heather Humphreys.
As part of the changes, families will no longer have to register births or deaths in person to an official registrar.
Instead, families can choose to complete the registration online.
Announcing the Civil Registration (Electronic Registration) Bill 2023, Minister Humphreys said: “This Bill looks to modernise the Civil Registration Service where the current requirement to attend in person has gone unchanged since the introduction of civil registration in Ireland in 1864.”
The Bill will also allow for a death to be registered where a coroner’s inquest has not yet been concluded.
The Department noted that the current arrangement whereby deaths can only be registered once a coroner’s report is completed delays the death registration process and “creates practical difficulties for families who are seeking to manage the affairs of the deceased person”.
The timeframe in which a death must be registered has also been reduced from the current three-month timeframe to 28 days.
Minister Humphreys said this reduced timeframe follows a recent public consultation process and will “bring Ireland in line with death registration practices in other countries and will ensure that deaths are notified and registered at the earliest opportunity”.
Hospitals will also be required to notify the General Register Office of a death within two days, and it’s hoped that this improved collection of statistics on deaths will support public health management and monitoring.
The criteria for registering stillbirths has also been revised, something which has been called for by advocacy groups.
Access to the register of stillbirths will now be expanded to other relatives of the stillborn child, where currently only the parents may search the register and obtain a certificate.
“Parents and advocacy groups have lobbied for the changes to the stillbirth criteria and for broadening access to the Register of Stillbirths and I am very happy to support them by bringing forward the necessary legislation,” said Minister Humphreys.
The Bill also seeks to amend the criteria for the registration of stillbirths to “reflect advances in clinical practices and recommendations by the Department of Health”.
The current criteria permits registration where the stillborn child weights at least 500 grams or reaches a gestational age of 24 weeks.
The new proposals look to reduce these thresholds to 400 grams and 23 weeks respectively.
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This explains the FFG pro israeli stance dangerous times
@Kevin O Brien: The government are not and should not be on any side….they are both as bad as each other.
@Kevin O Brien: how the fk did you arrive at that conclusion?
@Ian: Events dear boy, events!
Not exactly a great stretch in fairness
Close the borders while hes at it
@DC: close your head.
@Ian: His mind is already shut down tight
NATO here we come..
@Pato: best thing for us. Protected on all sides
We’ll join NATO, “over my dead body”.
@Dissasociated Follower: good for you. Hopefully you will be the first to sign up and fight for your country if anything happens since we would be isolated and on our own.
Ireland does not need military forces. There is no threat, and
the Yanks and Brits have our back.
@Mickey D.: hahaha.. no they don’t. They wouldn’t help us in some war.. that’s not how it works. You need allies for that of which we have none. We have no agreements in place at all.. the best we would hope for is some aid. Even then that would be difficult as we would be overrun within days. So any aid would be useless.
@Jason: We are in a strategic location and NATO would not want the island to fall into enemy hands. Shannon Airport for example would be perfect as a launch pad for big bombers.
So they do have our backs!
This seems a very reasonable way of managing military involvement.. or does the government seek agility to decide on military operations as they please?
Love the NATO comments, like NATO would let us join even if we wanted too :))
@Paul C:
Oh you can be sure our current govt. wants to and you can be sure NATO wouldn’t wipe their eye.
Are you still of the opinion that Ireland doesn’t have “free speech” Paul? You went awful quiet when I brought the view of an Associate Professor of law into our conversation. I’m here if you’d like to correct yourself ;-)
@Sean: I’ll go back and look. I kinda moved on when more articles came up. Cheers though.
@Sean: I can’t remember the article. Let me know which one it is. “You can be sure the govt. want it” No. I can be sure that’s what you think it wants. Two different things.
This government cannot be trusted.It is hellbent at every opportunity to undermine our much respected neutrality.
@Patrick Presley: ha, as if we are neutral. Our politicians keep pushing other countries while claiming we are militarily neutral but not politically neutral, that makes us not neutral. It’s like calling someone out and then when they try to fight you your excuse is “you wouldn’t hit a guy with glasses would you”? we will see ourselves soon to be running for cover when we get attacked if a war broke out.
Might explain and justify why there’s thousands of young men being brought into the state, without explanation. One wonders are these soldiers? Our new army recruits ready to don our uniforms? Answers please
@Derek Blake: That is a unique way of looking at things and totally of subject. But points fr originality!
First NATO and then the reverse vampires and lizard people or something……
@Alan Leahy: Oh yes, this joining NATO business.. Such a fairytale.. Anyone suggesting a move in that direction must be one of those tinfoil hat types, I’m sure!
Why are people complaining about this?!? The triple lock needs to go. Not to mention our army needs a serious upgrade in equipment and manpower. We need jets, real artillery, helicopters, air defence systems, better navy ships some tanks and better radar systems. unless you’re all happy about our fishermen doing the job the army should be doing? I bet if we where attacked you would all complain about why we don’t have these things.
You all think America or the UK would help us, well I’m here to tell you that’s a complete fantasy. I don’t see anybody with boots on the ground in Ukraine.. they send aid but they sure got bored of doing that quickly enough.
bums are starting to squeak all over the place rn
I think the ‘triple lock is good’ but the figure of 12 personnel being able to deploy probably needs to be looked at.
It needs to cover sufficient active personnel, support, and hardware to meet the needs of the nation.
Hostage recovery is probably a likely scenario including assisting our citizens caught up in conflict or terrorist activities..
A unit or units of safe operational size needs to be deployed when the need arises . We have some off the best trained special forces in the world, we need the capability to utilise them?
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