Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 2 March 2022
Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs
Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage
Holly Cairns (Cork South West, Social Democrats)
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The situation requires that we have as robust and as inclusive a definition as possible. We need to guarantee that all records relating to the adoption or informal care arrangement of a relevant person are understood as that person's personal data. These amendments simply provide for a fuller definition that will provide greater reassurance for adopted people and their relatives. It is difficult to understand why they cannot be accepted by the Minister.