Ms Sylda Langford:

The legal advice from the Department is that we cannot do so, but we can liaise with the redress board and the board can help us in any way it sees fit. There is a legal line that we must be extremely careful about. I worked in adoption at one stage and the same issue arises. It is always a difficult situation if someone is trying to trace a relative and that person turns up out of the blue at another person's door. If a person has not told anyone about their past, it can be very difficult to have something come out of the past and hit them. We have to manage our business very carefully.