Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 19 October 2021
Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth
General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed)
Ms Alice McEvoy:
I want to clarify something there with the language. I had always used the word "mothers" but, in the context of adoption, we want to use the term "natural". When it comes to the adoption, "natural mother" is our preferred term. In the 1952 Act, that was the term legally used. I just want to clarify that.