Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 29 June 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021

Ms Susan Lohan:

The pillars of transitional justice are around accountability, justice and promises of non-repetition. There are no indicators of that in the Bill. One would have thought, for example, that anybody who was imparting the information to an adopted person or to someone who had been boarded out would have an obligation set out in the legislation to report any findings of wrongdoing or criminality, and there is absolutely no suggestion of that in the Bill as it currently stands. I will now hand over to Ms Mari Steed.

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