Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 9 March 2022

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed)

Photo of Roderic O'GormanRoderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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I want to get these guidelines published as quickly as possible, but I am not sure if it will be possible to have them ready in their entirety before Report Stage. The team has been focused on addressing the significant body of work in front of the committee now. We can look perhaps at getting some draft heads of the guidelines for the committee, or something like that. We will do our best for the committee in that regard, but a significant body of work is ongoing in this context and we were going to use the three-month period of the information campaign to finalise the guidelines. We will, however, seek to get a draft copy of the guidelines to the committee to give some indication of the level of detail we are seeking to implement in them and, hopefully, that will provide some element of reassurance.