Noel Dempsey
Question:30 Mr. Dempsey asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the reason a person (details supplied) in County Meath will not be allowed to include her son's name on her passport without the written consent of the child's father in spite of the fact that she is a single parent rearing the child on her own, the child's father has never accepted any responsibility for the child and his name is not on the birth certificate; and if he will make a statement on the changes, if any, he proposes to make to alter this situation. [11295/97]