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

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 119: In page 16, lines 20 and 21, to delete “, and an information session has already taken place”.

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

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 120: In page 16, lines 23 and 24, to delete “and no information session has taken place”.

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

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 104: In page 14, to delete lines 14 and 15 and substitute the following: “(a) the name of a person other than the mother of the first mentioned person was falsely or otherwise incorrectly entered in the register of births as the mother of the first mentioned person, and”.

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

Ivana Bacik: If I may, I would like to come in on that point before I have to leave to go to the Dáil Chamber. It is a case of unfortunate timing. The Minister is quoting back to me, as I had anticipated. I have been measured in my comments. I acknowledge that this is a far preferable option that the Minister is presenting us with as a means of balancing rights. A few years ago, when we proposed...

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

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 121: In page 16, line 28, to delete “paragraph (a), (b), (c)or (d)of”.

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

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 122: In page 16, line 28, to delete “paragraph (a), (b), (c)or (d)of”.

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

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 123: In page 17, lines 29 and 30, to delete “, and an information session has already taken place”.

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

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 124: In page 17, lines 32 and 33, to delete “and no information session has taken place”.

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

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 125: In page 17, line 34, to delete “paragraph (a), (b), (c)or (d)of”.

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

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 126: In page 17, to delete lines 38 and 39, and in page 18, to delete lines 1 to 5.

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

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 132: In page 18, lines 38 and 39, to delete “, and an information session has already taken place”.

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

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 133: In page 19, lines 1 and 2, to delete “and no information session has taken place”.

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

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 135: In page 19, lines 5 and 6, to delete “paragraph (a), (b), (c)or (d)of”.

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

Ivana Bacik: Amendment No. 199 is the substantive amendment I seek to make. It is to give effect to the recommendation we made in the pre-legislative scrutiny report to replace the mandatory information session with a requirement that the authority sends a registered post, or other recorded delivery, letter to applicants setting out the relevant information. I apologise because I had to leave in the...

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

Ivana Bacik: I am grateful the Minister did that.

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

Ivana Bacik: We are agreed that there have been lots of variations of this and that the understanding of how best to balance rights has changed and developed. The problem remains that the mandatory information session strikes many adopted persons as an unduly paternalistic approach. It is still balanced too much on that side. It harks back to when the view was taken that we could not give people access...

Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including the recent Amnesty International Report: Statements (2 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate on the situation in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories on behalf of the Labour Party. The recent report of Amnesty International that we are debating was unequivocal in its findings as to the extent of land seizures, unlawful killings, restrictions on movement, denial of citizenship of Palestinians and other breaches of...

Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Second Stage (2 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: As we debate this Bill, the people of Ukraine are suffering the brutal invasion and bombardment by Russian forces. We are seeing the deaths of children and civilians. That makes us all reflect on the importance and privilege of being able to debate legislation in a debating chamber in a parliament in a peaceful democratic republic. We must all reassert the true value of democracy. The war...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (2 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I confirm I am on the Leinster House campus. I thank the Minister for the engagement on these amendments. There was a clearly expressed desire by survivors to see a specific outline of the sorts of records, data and information covered in the legislation. I welcome the Minister engaging on this and the opportunity to come back on Report Stage on these points, given there are so many...