Mark Ward (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 44:

In page 30, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following: "(b) a religious order of the Roman Catholic Church,".

These amendments seek to ensure the Church of Ireland and the Roman Catholic Church are included as information sources, given the central role they played in the mother and baby homes. Amendment No. 48 further seeks to include any possible person involved with the removal of remains, reburial, burial or any such other duties. As a great many of the records required by the director are held by religious orders operating as charities within and outside the State, this amendment seeks to expand the categories in which the various data controllers of churches, charities, benevolent groups, etc., fall.