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

Holly Cairns: I welcome the changes the Minister has made to the legislation and all the work he and his Department have done on it. Is there any chance of that last change being made in respect of the mandatory information session? If we accept the Minister's argument that it has to be there, a really good compromise would be if the way it was carried could be achieved through Deputy Bacik's amendment....

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

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 58: In page 23, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following: “(6) When a relevant person applies under sections 11 and 12 for information and/or when a relevant person applies for their personal data, the relevant body or the Authority will make available all medical records to the relevant person regardless of whether they have explicitly requested those...

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

Holly Cairns: Firstly, the Minister's insinuation that I dispute parents being able to register a no-contact preference is ridiculous. That is evident in the fact that we are not debating amendments to remove the no-contact preference. We are debating amendments on removing a mandatory information session for adopted people. The Minister bringing that into it is evidence of the non-existence of...

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

Holly Cairns: The amendments tabled by Deputy Bacik seek to address one of the most significant barriers in the Bill, which is the mandatory information session. The committee's pre-legislative scrutiny report was unambiguous in recommending that the mandatory information session should be removed from the legislation and that alternative appropriate safeguards should instead be provided for, such as the...

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

Holly Cairns: The Minister just spoke about the need for a culture change in the context of releasing information to adopted people. We all know the history of that not really happening and of bodies trying to keep it hidden under the carpet. The Minister then said that his Department will be tasked with trying to change that culture not only within the Department itself but within organisations like...

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

Holly Cairns: The amendment states that "Under this Act, all records relating to the adoption or informal care arrangement of a relevant person are considered to be that person’s personal data, regardless of whether that data are shared with another person. Personal data in relation to a relevant person, includes but is not limited to" and so on. The Minister has said that we are better off...

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

Holly Cairns: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, should I have moved amendment No. 58?

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

Holly Cairns: Thank you.

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

Holly Cairns: Amendment No. 15 ensures the Bill includes the broadest possible definition of personal data. This comes back to guaranteeing beyond a shadow of a doubt that adopted people and their relatives will be entitled to access information. Given the manner in which this access has been denied and continues to be, as well as the levels of distrust in how this Bill will be interpreted by State...

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

Holly Cairns: For the hundredth time, what we are asking for is that illegal adoptions be included alongside the other types of adoption. It is not fair to say that that would limit this to illegal adoptions. We are asking for illegal adoptions to be included alongside the other forms of adoption. Just pretending we have not said that every time is frustrating to the people watching this as well as to...

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

Holly Cairns: Do I speak to amendment No. 58 now or do I wait-----

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

Holly Cairns: Deputy Bacik is waiting-----

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

Holly Cairns: Sorry. I will speak to amendment No. 58 now then. The amendment states: "When a relevant person applies under sections 11and 12for information and/or when a relevant person applies for their personal data, the relevant body or the Authority will make available all medical records to the relevant person regardless of whether they have explicitly requested those items." This amendment is...

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

Holly Cairns: We are asking for both to be included alongside each other rather than just illegal adoptions to be included so both are acknowledged in-----

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

Holly Cairns: Is it possible to speak on amendment No. 13?

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

Holly Cairns: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle and apologise for not being here earlier. The schedule arrived late.

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

Holly Cairns: Amendments Nos. 1 and 3 in my name, as the Leas-Cheann Comhairle noted, seek expressly to include reference to illegal adoptions in the Bill. Currently, it does not feature the term "illegal adoption", which erases the realities and experiences of many adopted people. The Minister talks about illegal adoptions, to which reference is made in the explanatory memorandum, but the Bill itself...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Apr 2022)

Holly Cairns: I hope the Taoiseach is aware that Cork has the worst children's disability services in the country. Families are not coping seeing their children deteriorate with the lack of services. There are no words for the suffering families are enduring, not to mind the State’s neglect of children with disabilities. Progressing disability services has failed. Children are worse off than...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Apr 2022)

Holly Cairns: Does the Taoiseach think the management should meet with them?