Ms Alice McEvoy:

I want to raise our medical information files, which is very important. Some mothers have very sensitive information on their files. It relates to causes of pregnancy such as rape and incest. If this information in their files was released without their consent, the distress and harm that would be done is immeasurable. I am very mindful that our medical information past is called "historical" yet my current medical information is way more interesting than the past one when I was 20 years of age, which was very little. I am very concerned about medical information which is covered by GDPR for every citizen in the State, yet the Bill proposes that adopted people and their relatives could have access to our private medial files. That is a very worrying concern and I hope the committee takes it on board when it writes the report.