Holly Cairns (Cork South West, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

It is not specific to parents, which is the point I was making. We heard at committee that there are more adopted people who want to exercise their right to privacy rather than their right to information than there are parents. All we hear from the Government, and now again from the Minister, is the parent's right to privacy. There are more children, many of whom are now adults, obviously, who want to exercise that right. Nobody has an objection to people exercising their right to privacy. That is not what I am getting at. I am talking about the weight the Minister is putting on that versus all the other rights we are dealing with in this committee.

We are talking about 1% of relatives. How is so much of the focus on this when we are also dealing with all of the other rights that have been disregarded for decades? It is just confusing that there is so much emphasis on it.