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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (9 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 157. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the full year value of the new core funding scheme; the breakdown of the allocation towards pay, graduate uplift, programme support payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13341/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (9 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 158. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of early learning and care services that applied for sustainability funding in 2021; and the number that received funding. [13342/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (9 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 159. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the review of the operating system for early learning and care and school-age childcare will be published. [13343/22]

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) (9 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 141: In page 20, 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) (9 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 142: In page 20, 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) (9 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 144: In page 20, line 25, 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) (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?