138 Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to a number of frauds perpetrated against unsuspecting single mothers who gave birth in some of Dublin’s maternity hospitals, involving individuals adding a name to the child’s birth certificate as the father, unbeknownst to the mother, getting a copy of the certificate and using it to purchase passports for other children; the number of such cases reported to her Department and to the General Register Office; the number of such cases investigated; the number of prosecutions in such cases; and to make a statement on the measures introduced to prevent such fraud. [32963/04]

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138 Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to a number of frauds perpetrated against unsuspecting single mothers who gave birth in some of Dublin’s maternity hospitals, involving individuals adding a name to the child’s birth certificate as the father, unbeknownst to the mother, getting a copy of the certificate and using it to purchase passports for other children; the number of such cases reported to her Department and to the General Register Office; the number of such cases investigated; the number of prosecutions in such cases; and to make a statement on the measures introduced to prevent such fraud. [32963/04]

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