Ivana Bacik (Dublin Bay South, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I support the amendments and I thank the Minister for his clarification. It is very helpful to hear it. These amendments were clearly put forward in the spirit of ensuring that adopted people would have access to full records, not to information about records. What all of us who were engaged in the hearings during pre-legislative scrutiny heard from adopted persons and organisations representing adopted persons was the real hunger to have access, as should be their right, to the original records about their birth, not to any types of secondary sources for information about them. I welcome the Minister's indication that he accepts the amendments in principle. That is very helpful. It will help to ensure the Bill is changed constructively to reflect more precisely not just the right to information about records but the right of access to records, which is what we all want to see enshrined in law.