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Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 Apr 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 37: In page 19, lines 1 and 2, to delete “paragraph (a), (b), (c)or (d) of”.

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 Apr 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 38: In page 19, to delete lines 10 to 15.

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 Apr 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 45: In page 20, lines 17 and 18, to delete “, and an information session has already taken place”.

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (27 Apr 2022)

Ivana Bacik: All of us want to see the fundamental right to identity of adopted persons recognised and given effect in this legislation. That is absolutely the spirit in which I bring forward this amendment, supported by my colleagues. The Minister indicates this will only apply to a small number of persons but that is precisely the point. It will apply to those adopted persons who seek their birth...

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (27 Apr 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I have tabled a number of amendments in this grouping. Most of them are technical. My substantive amendment is No. 59, which deals with the issue of the mandatory information session. This is the big sticking point for us with the Bill. I am very disappointed we did not see progress made on it on Committee Stage. We had a full debate with the Minister and I acknowledge how much progress...

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (27 Apr 2022)

Ivana Bacik: This amendment can be described as being in that spirit of ensuring the legislation will be as inclusive as possible and that all information an adopted person seeks will be supplied to him or her and there will not be anything missing from the list of items that may be sought.

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (27 Apr 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I think all of us share that frustration about the language. We will have an opportunity, I think, to debate this issue further when we come to the later group of amendments concerning the new mechanism for the Minister to authorise the agency or authority to conduct a review or trace where a person believes he or she has been the subject of an incorrect birth registration. I hope we can...

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (27 Apr 2022)

Ivana Bacik: This is a large group of amendments, as the Leas-Cheann Comhairle said, and some of the amendments in it are mine - I think I am right in saying amendments Nos. 35 to 38, inclusive, 45 to 47, inclusive, and 49. However, the amendments that are mine in this group in fact relate really to my substantive amendment No. 59, which is on the mandatory information session, so it may be better to...

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (27 Apr 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Yes. I will reserve my fuller comments until then.

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (27 Apr 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I, too, am glad the amendment has been tabled and that it reflects a discussion we had on Committee Stage. We need to acknowledge where progress was made on Committee Stage and thank the Minister for taking on board comments made. Obviously, we will be critical where those comments have not been taken on board, but it is worth acknowledging where comments are taken on board and the...

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (27 Apr 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I, too, welcome the amendment and thank the Minister for acknowledging the debate on Committee Stage.

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (27 Apr 2022)

Ivana Bacik: The amendment is welcome because so many adopted persons made the point to us that the legislation needs to be as inclusive as possible. We had a lengthy debate on that issue on Committee Stage and, in the same spirit of inclusivity, it is welcome to see the amendment.

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (27 Apr 2022)

Ivana Bacik: As Deputy Funchion stated, this is an issue that came up extensively on Committee Stage. Indeed, we submitted an amendment to make a distinction between falsely or otherwise incorrectly. The Minister took that point on board. I, too, would welcome clarification on how amendment No. 2, tabled by the Minister, as well as his later amendments which I am delighted to see he has brought forward...

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (27 Apr 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the amendment. As Deputy Funchion said, it reflects the discussion we had on Committee Stage to ensure the Bill will be as inclusive as possible. I very much welcome the fact that, as the Minister said, this provision will ensure that persons who were the subject of what he described as more informal adoption arrangements, in particular those effected outside of the State, will be...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (27 Apr 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 12. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination last met; and when it will next meet. [16209/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (27 Apr 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Europe will next meet. [17879/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Communications (27 Apr 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the Government Information Service unit of his Department. [17878/22]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (27 Apr 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 28. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [17875/22]

Home Heating Fuels: Motion [Private Members] (26 Apr 2022)

Ivana Bacik: We know the spike in the cost of living is hurting households throughout Ireland as inflation has surged to a 22-year high of 6.7% and looks set to continue its increase. We see the cost of fuel, food, housing and basic services is now out of control. Everyone is feeling the pinch, most of all those who are already struggling to make ends meet. The horrendous war in Ukraine has undoubtedly...