Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister for his comprehensive reply and accept at face value that he wishes to see this issue progress. In the course of our meetings in recent weeks on the whole issue of the mother and baby homes, I have suggested this may be one area in which the State can make good its past failings by bringing forward a system to enable the tens of thousands of people who were adopted through forced adoptions, illegal registrations or whatever and who cannot get access to what is a fundamental basic human right, namely, a right to their identity. Members must somehow manage to bring forward such a system to ensure the right of those people, that is, the right of the child, is not infringed upon as a result of the constitutional right to privacy. The Minister has stated he will bring forward draft heads of the Bill in the near future.

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