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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Mar 2022)

Holly Cairns: 651. To ask the Minister for Health the public alternatives that have been put in place for new PreP service users who have been unable to engage with the PrEP service since 4 October 2021 in the South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital, Cork. [12881/22]

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

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 71: In page 11, line 22, to delete “incorrect” and substitute “illegal”.

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

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 72: In page 11, line 22, after “information” to insert “or illegal birth registration information”

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

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 75: In page 11, line 23, after “registration” to insert “or an illegal birth registration”.

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

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 76: In page 11, between lines 27 and 28, to insert the following: “(c) the personal data of the relevant person whose birth was illegally registered;”.

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

Holly Cairns: To add briefly to what the other Deputies have said, these amendments are important to highlight the obligations of relevant bodies to provide information for adopted people. It is an important departure, providing proactive responses to the rights of adopted people. I will leave it at that.

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

Holly Cairns: I will add ever so slightly to that with regard to amendment No. 228, which removes the restriction on adopted people being permitted access to specific items. The Minister has refused amendments based on the likely unavailability of information or even the existence of such information. This restriction falls into that category. In this case, the provision of items is dependent on...

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

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 83: In page 13, line 6, to delete “incorrect” and substitute “illegal”.

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

Holly Cairns: These are important amendments. Amendments numbers 93 to 101, inclusive, expand the definition of secondary information source to include the very wide range of actors that we know were involved in the adoption process. The current list does not make explicit reference to any persons or organisations involved in facilitating adoptions, the care of adopted people and family separation....

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

Holly Cairns: I also must go to the Chamber shortly to speak. It is quite telling that with the exception of Deputy Pringle, the only people here really speaking on the amendments are women and now we are all going to speak on International Women's Day so it is bad timing in terms of the schedule. I think the Chairman and everybody else is really aware of the highly contested issue around mandatory...

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

Holly Cairns: I would like to come in on a couple of things the Minister said, including that this could be a constitutional problem. I do not think that anyone for a second believes we would have to change the Constitution to allow people to exercise a right they ultimately should and do already have. We had that conversation around the general data protection regulation, GDPR, and law. There is a...

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

Holly Cairns: That is 99 people. What percentage of people? That is not parents; that is relatives.

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

Holly Cairns: It is not specific to parents, which is the point I was making. We heard at committee that there are more adopted people who want to exercise their right to privacy rather than their right to information than there are parents. All we hear from the Government, and now again from the Minister, is the parent's right to privacy. There are more children, many of whom are now adults, obviously,...

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

Holly Cairns: And to their parents

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

Holly Cairns: Of course

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

Holly Cairns: We all know there are different ways to convey things. We did it again - talking about the right to privacy of the parent and never referencing the right to privacy of adopted people as well. That is what we heard more in the committee - there were more adopted people who wanted to exercise their right to privacy than parents whose children were forcibly removed from their care. I am just...

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

Holly Cairns: They can register a no-contact preference as well.

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

Holly Cairns: I must go to the Dáil Chamber.