Ivana Bacik (Dublin Bay South, Labour)
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My amendment No. 104 is in this grouping and it seeks to capture, as Deputy Cairns said, the lived experiences of survivors. As others have done, I pay tribute to the many survivors who have taken the time to email or contact us to describe their experiences and express their desire to see this legislation through and effectively give them a right to information. We are trying effectively to reflect their experiences, which is why I have tabled this amendment. The amendment also reflects a recommendation of our pre-legislative scrutiny report that, rather than simply saying people had their particulars incorrectly entered in the register of births, that it would be reflected that there were also cases where individuals' dates of birth and so on were falsely entered. We wanted to capture that reality in the definitional section, section 2, and make that distinction that, in some cases, records were deliberately falsified.

That is why I am tabling this amendment. It is reflective, as with so many other amendments in this grouping, of our findings as a committee and our recommendation in the pre-legislative scrutiny report.