John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

As I said twice already, 40% of adopted people do not know their status. They do not know they were adopted. The logic does not follow that those people do not carry a passport because clearly the vast majority of people do. I think there are double standards at play here. Unfortunately, adopted people feel like second-class citizens and that they are discriminated against when it comes to accessing this information. A lot of people do not want to go and get their adoption certificate. They are happy with their current family situation and status and they do not want to get the details. Some do, and that is fine, but people are being forced into an area where they do not want to go.