Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Again, I understand where Deputies are coming from here. However, in terms of the circumstances Deputy Funchion just outlined, the type of care arrangements that are defined in the Bill clearly include a nursed out arrangement, a boarded out arrangement and an arrangement under which a child was cared for by a resident of an institution. Our belief is that the situation that Deputy Funchion just outlined is already covered by this legislation. We know that boarded out and nursed out arrangements are two separate things. Nursed out children were usually very young whereas boarded out children, while still young, could be seven or eight years old as opposed to a few months old. We believe that the very comprehensive definition of care arrangement and the various types of arrangement provided for cover all of the instances that we can envisage and would have experience of from talking to survivors over the years. At the same time, it does not raise a false or unmeetable hope that information about what happened when an adopted person or someone boarded out was in his or her own home, cared for by his or her own parent because that information just does not exist.