Clare Daly (Dublin North, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

The Ministers reply raises two problems, first, far too many people have come forward with their experience of being frustrated when they sought to find their identity for it to be a coincidence. It is clear that there is a problem in the system. My office alone receives contact from many people who have been deliberately frustrated. The Minister's reply to questions I have tabled have acknowledged that the volume of inquiries in Glanmire was so great that the centre could not grapple with it. I do not know if that is a resources or a blocking issue.

Second, the answers to questions about legislation have changed over the past few years. Two years ago we were told it was close to completion but now we are told there are serious legal problems but the only case is that of 1998 the judgment which many people believe is seriously flawed. Given the stories which even in the past week have hit the airwaves about the many women who did not give consent, or whose documents were forged, it seems to me that the whole area of so-called privacy could be better tested.

They have a decent humane system in other countries where people have access to their identities. It is not complex and we can do the same here.

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