Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

She asked and I have confirmed this to the Deputy. With respect, I have at least twice. She asked for her name to be removed and we made the determination that this was work that she had taken on on behalf of the Government, which had been done, and which we believed should be published with her name. That was the situation. We have discussed that report. I am not sure if it was the subject of a full set of statements but I have spoken about the report. There were significant follow-ups to that report in the work the former special rapporteur, Conor O'Mahony, did. The central recommendation was that nothing more could be done in the space of illegal birth registrations. I did not accept that. I asked Professor O'Mahony to do a piece of work and he did a substantial piece of work. One of the provisions we put in the information and tracing legislation was to allow either Tusla or the Adoption Authority of Ireland, where they identify particular markers, which is a term Deputies will recall was used in that report for suspicious entries on a particular file, to investigate further. That provision is there and a team in Tusla is undertaking further work in that area.

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