File photo of a baby Image: Shutterstock/Iren_Geo File photo of a baby Image: Shutterstock/Iren_Geo PARENTS ARE PAYING private companies more than twice the going rate to get birth certificates for their children due to huge delays in registering their births in Dublin and nearby counties.
Labour Senator Marie Sherlock has called on the HSE and Department of Social Protection to address the issue. She said the fact that private companies are capitalising on the HSE’s “dereliction of duty” is unacceptable. While the Senator received the cert she paid for, others who have ordered the document via a different third party website have been left out of pocket.
A child born in Cork today will have their birth registered in two to three days. If that same child was born in Dublin, waiting for an appointment for registration is taking weeks and in some cases, months. I know of a child born four weeks ago and his parents could only get an appointment in Dublin on 16 December. “There has been a failure on the part of the HSE and the Department of Health to address the enormous backlog that currently exists in Dublin.
We acknowledge that these issues are resulting in increased challenges for many people and we are working hard to find solutions to address them. Staff have been working overtime, and additional staff are in the process of being recruited, to help reduce processing times.
It took me 10 weeks. Didn't know what the norm time is because its my first but thought that wait wasn't that bad!
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