Replacement birth cert - proper official one

chabsey

So the morons in Dun Laoghaire council insisted I send them my original birth cert when applying for a grant a few years back. I didn't get the grant and when I called them to ask for my original berth cert back the answer was a pause and then...'Eh, what birth cert?'

So the overpaid moronic idiots managed to lose the thing and then claim that I didn't send it to them! Outcome = I have no original birth cert and I know that sometime soon I'll run into some red tape that requires it. I vaguely remember seeing some govt site that I could order an 'official' replacement for about a tenner but can't find it now.

Anyone know where I can get one? Not a copy, I need the official 'original' birth cert, obviously not the ones the clowns in Dun Laoghaire lost, but one that will suffice for the next time some governmental dept decides they need it.

Nightwish

you can get it in any HSE community services office that has a Birth Deaths and Marriages office or on the net at www.birthsdeathsmarriages.ie

chabsey

Nightwish wrote: »

you can get it in any HSE community services office that has a Birth Deaths and Marriages office or on the net at www.birthsdeathsmarriages.ie

Thanks for the quick response, that website looks dodgy, just has that 'one night only!' look about it, is it legit?

Also, don't suppose you know how much the cost is if I go in in person to one of those HSE offices? Thanks.

Nightwish

In my job, I have to get clients to send in birth certs so thats the info I give them. There's a central office in Roscommon that processes the online orders. You can get it by post either using this form. Its around €10 - €15 to get your cert in the HSE office but more online.

chabsey

Nightwish wrote: »

In my job, I have to get clients to send in birth certs so thats the info I give them. There's a central office in Roscommon that processes the online orders. You can get it by post either using this form. Its around €10 - €15 to get your cert in the HSE office but more online.

Cool, 15 euros in person sounds ideal, thanks.

Run_to_da_hills

If you need a birth cert for drawing the dole it is considerably less. You get a form stamped at the dole office to say you are unemployed and bring that into the office off Pearse St. I think it is around a Euro.

Slutmonkey57b

What makes you think there's such a thing as an "unofficial" birth cert?

Maybe they're for illegitimate children?

Emerald Lass

Slutmonkey57b wrote: »

What makes you think there's such a thing as an "unofficial" birth cert?

Maybe they're for illegitimate children?

I think he's referring to the 'short' version of the birth cert which is not accepted when applying for most things.

anyway, I thought your offiial original one was kept by the registrar in their big records book - as far as I knew all the 'birthcerts' you get are copies, either long or short version, but they are official copies, stamped by registrar? or am I wrong?

rainbow kirby

I got a copy of mine in the Births/Deaths/Marriages office in Lombard St, took about 20 minutes and cost me a tenner. It also ended up with me being called by my mother's maiden name, which nobody has called me in about 20 years!

BroomBurner

You can get an official copy of your original birth cert through the GRO, usually takes a couple of days if you order by phone. Just make sure you check it's the right cert!