Joanna Tuffy
Question:107 Deputy Joanna Tuffy asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on a newspaper report that there are plans to provide for compulsory registration of unmarried fathers on the birth certificate of a child; if this is in order to implement the recommendation of the Law Reform Commission to link compulsory registration of unmarried fathers with automatic guardianship for those fathers, a reform that has been called for by the commission in its 2010 report on legal aspects of family relationship but also its report on the status of children in 1982; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4624/12]
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