Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 8 March 2022
Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs
Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed)
Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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-----of the discussions we have had, we are providing full right of access to a birth certificate, birth and care information etc. We are doing all those things we failed to do in the past. That absolute prioritisation of the privacy right of the parent has been inverted and now there is an absolute right to all the information but we cannot remove the privacy rights entirely from the equation-----