Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the publication of the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016. I did not table the amendment I tabled on Committee Stage because the Bill has now been published. I have no doubt that the issues Deputy Ó Laoghaire is raising will be a big part of our discussions when we come to deal with that legislation where we are talking about people who, in many cases, have no information about their birth parents and who are seeking access to birth certificates. There will be issues we want to tease out in that legislation. There are issues around statutory declarations which we will come to when we come to that legislation. There are two different kinds of children here. There are children who remember their previous family and have formed ties, which are the ones Deputy Ó Laoghaire is concerned about. If a child is adopted almost immediately after birth, there is a totally different scenario. We will be dealing with much of this when we come to the other legislation so I will contribute at greater length at that stage.

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