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

Roderic O'Gorman: Guidelines cannot be officially published until the legislation is enacted. As I said, however, we will endeavour to get drafts of the guidelines to the committee. It must be recognised, though, that those will only be drafts of the guidelines and that they will be subject to change, but we can listen to the views of the committee in that regard as well. To reiterate, what we will be...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: These deal specifically with guidelines. I have given a commitment to try to make available draft heads of guidelines to Deputies in advance of Report Stage.

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

Roderic O'Gorman: The drafting of the ministerial guidelines and release of medical information on a genetic relative is provided for under the section. Section 16(7) states the Minister may consult such persons as he or she considers appropriate. In the context of the release of medical information, consultation with medical experts would involve the person most relevant, including in the sense of having...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 200: In page 25, to delete line 6 and substitute "be, and".

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

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 201: In page 25, to delete lines 7 to 10 and substitute the following: "(b) the fact that— (i) the parent concerned has exercised his or her entitlement under section 38(11)to state that he or she is not willing to be contacted by the relevant person, and (ii) the making of that statement by the parent constitutes an exercise by him or her of his or her...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: We made a decision when bringing forward this legislation that we did not want to define just for those people aged 18 and above and we wanted to recognise that younger people who were adopted also have an interest in their birth and early life information. We wanted to make provision for that. Issues are different when we are not dealing with adults and we engaged quite significantly. In...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: This legislation already makes it clear that copies of relevant records will be provided in all circumstances and this is already provided for in the Bill. As such, this amendment is not necessary.

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

Roderic O'Gorman: The existing provisions of the Bill allow for the release of records and emphasise that copies of the records will be released in all situations.

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

Roderic O'Gorman: No. I have responded to similar amendments already.

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

Roderic O'Gorman: I agree with Deputy Funchion on that. The Bill already provides that all information that is there will be made available to a relevant person who seeks it.

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

Roderic O'Gorman: This section refers to another significant improvement of the legislation between the initial heads of the Bill and the final draft following the pre-legislative scrutiny, PLS, process, which is to provide a relevant person who is an adopted person with medical information about a deceased relative. Again this is important information and where it is available it should be provided but...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: This group of amendments relates to section 27 under Part 4. That section provides for the release of the birth information of a child who died in an institution to a qualifying relative. This speaks again to an issue that came up during the pre-legislative scrutiny process about information relating to children who died in institutions. That was not provided for under the original draft...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: I absolutely do not accept the Deputy's suggestion that I am trying to discredit anyone. Where a right to information is provided in the next section I do not see a need to provide the same right in two separate sections. I do not see any necessity or any legal purpose in doing that.

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

Roderic O'Gorman: I have a similar response. I want to put on record that section 27 provides for the release of birth information. Section 28 provides for the release of early life information, care information or incorrect birth registration information. Section 30 provides for the release of medical information. Section 29 provides for the release of provided items. Each set of information provided...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: This group of amendments relates to section 30. Section 30 provides for the release of medical information of a child who died in an institution to his or her qualifying relative. Amendments Nos. 261 and 263 are similar to each other and proposed the deletion of section 30(4), which sets out the categories of records to be used in the search for the medical information of the child who is...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: Before I respond to the points made by Deputy Cairns, I wish to put on the record that I intend to bring forward amendments on Report Stage to Part 5 of the Bill to ensure that the statutory tracing service delivered by Tusla can support the delivery of certain specialised tracing services in respect of suspected instances of illegal birth registration. That will be in Report Stage...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: It will support the delivery of certain specialised tracing services in respect of suspected instances of illegal birth registration. It is, in part, to respond to some of the recommendations of the special rapporteur's report on illegal birth registration and to give additional powers to respond to that. In respect of the set of amendments that have been proposed, the provisions of the...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: I agree with Deputy Cairns. I have also heard from and met people who were adopted and subject to illegal birth registration. I have heard their very real and deep frustration with processes and how they were treated as individuals. I am very aware of that. I have said in these hearings on a number of occasions that we must change the culture in these organisations. We will do this in a...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: Section 34 provides in part for the ability of the AAI or Tusla to undertake tracing and request information from as wide a set of information sources as possible. The amendment proposes to remove the ability of these agencies to engage with a diocese or parish of the Roman Catholic Church or the Church of Ireland. The proposal is to remove those organisations from the process. They were...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: We have confirmed that the definition of "relevant body" contained in the legislation can include religious bodies and other private entities. This means they can be designated as secondary information sources. What we are talking about here is the ability to engage with a parish church in Blanchardstown or Kilkenny to see if we can look at its register to find out if there is information...