Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 2 November 2021

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth

General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Simon McGarr:

The legislative process, even with the best will in the world, is not speedy.

Coming from a litigation lawyer, that is quite saying something. We live in a very slow moving world but there is room for interim activity to ensure those barriers people are meeting right now are addressed without the need for legislation. As I said, this is an administrative, not a legislative, problem. There is no legislative gap we currently need to fill to allow people to get access to their information. Rather there is a problem at the administrative level in giving effect to the legislation that is already in place. Passing more legislation does not address the problem, which is to get the administration correct.

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