Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 11 November 2014
446. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 825 of 4 November 2014, the situation that arises where their Irish citizenship is not in question, both adoptive parents are now deceased and the twins do not have copies of their birth certificates; the way in which a person may obtain such birth certificates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43208/14]
View answerThe individuals concerned do not need to produce copies of their birth certificates. Instead the individuals can apply for Irish passports by enclosing the certificates of entry in the Adoption Authority of Ireland’s Register of Foreign Adoptions, relating to their adoption, and an Irish birth certificate for at least one of the Irish parents, available from the Irish General Register Office at https://www.welfare.ie/en/Pages/Apply-for-Certificates.aspx
