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Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 145: In page 20, to delete lines 29 to 34.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: The Minister is right on ensuring agency but that is not the purpose or application of this amendment. As I read it, it is in keeping with the spirit of the recommendation in our pre-legislative scrutiny report. The spirit of those recommendations in general was to ensure adopted persons would be provided with the maximum possible information. Recommendation 14 states: All information is...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: The debate is touching on the important issue of the degree of overlap between different categories of information. For people who were adopted or held in care, we tried to capture in the report that early life and care information encompasses so much about a person's medical history, from vaccine trials to, for example, abuse, genetic background and circumstances of birth. It may be...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: This debate goes to the heart of what the Bill is about and is very important. The information campaign and the guidelines may well clarify the issues but in the section 2 definitions of "early life information" and "medical information" there is a clear overlap. It will be important, as we said in pre-legislative scrutiny, for adopted persons seeking to access records on early life...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Yes, all and any. It is so people are not inadvertently blocked from receiving specific information that they would have wanted had they realised what it was. That is the important point.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome that comment from the Minister. We are all conscious that a significant workload is involved in doing that, but, at the same time, the issues we have been debating in many of these amendments could well be addressed through the guidelines. Therefore, it would be of great assistance to us and, more importantly, to those who are concerned to see this legislation enacted for their...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 199: In page 24, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following: "Information relating to contact preference 17.In every case where an applicant is provided under this Act with a copy of the records that contain the birth information to which the application relates, or with a statement setting out the birth information contained in those records, the Authority...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: As the Minister stated, we support the statutory underpinning of a tracing service and the provision of that statutory underpinning. The need for that was made clear. As Deputy Cairns said, the experience of Tusla of many of the witnesses who came before the committee was very negative. I look again at our recommendations Nos. 56 and 57 in the pre-legislative scrutiny report, where we...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister. That is very helpful.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister's indication of those future amendments. To clarify, will those amendments to the Succession Act be in this legislation, despite being within the remit of the Minister for Justice?

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: That is great reassurance. I thank the Minister. Amendment No. 325 is also very welcome.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Further and Higher Education (8 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 46. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will issue a directive to further and higher education institutions to retain certain flexible teaching mechanisms post-pandemic to support disabled students, those who cannot afford to live in university towns and those who are immunocompromised. [12709/22]

International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: As we debate and celebrate International Women's Day in this peaceful corner of Europe, we all think of the women and children fleeing the brutal bombardment from Russian forces in Ukraine, and we think of all those in Ukraine suffering and enduring under the horrific invasion that is unfolding before us. We are entering the second week of it and we stand in solidarity with the people of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (8 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 71. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the proposed use of the cost rental model for student accommodation. [12711/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (8 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way he proposes to promote the use of the Irish language in further and higher education institutions. [12710/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (8 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on statistics released under freedom of information which reveal that 75 reports of sexual harassment were lodged by staff and students in Irish colleges between 2015 and 2020. [12712/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Grid (8 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 137. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will request that Eirgrid submit updates regarding grid reinforcement projects to be laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas [12414/22]

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I support the amendments and I thank the Minister for his clarification. It is very helpful to hear it. These amendments were clearly put forward in the spirit of ensuring that adopted people would have access to full records, not to information about records. What all of us who were engaged in the hearings during pre-legislative scrutiny heard from adopted persons and organisations...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: It is unfortunate timing that all of us are due to speak in the Chamber for statements on International Women's Day just as these crucial amendments are coming up so I express regret that we will be in and out of the Chamber. My amendments in this grouping are Nos. 119 to 122, inclusive; Nos. 123 to 126, inclusive; Nos. 132 to 137, inclusive; and No. 144. I have other amendments in the next...