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

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 79: In page 58, line 4, to delete “Co. Galway” and substitute “Galway”. These are a number of technical amendments but are related to the Schedule. The Schedule, as we know, lists certain institutions and the way in which they were formatted had caused a certain amount of confusion in respect of spacing and commas. For the point of...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 80: In page 58, to delete lines 5 to 9 and substitute the following: “Bessborough Mother and Baby Home, Cork Manor House, Castlepollard, Westmeath Sean Ross Abbey, Tipperary Árd Mhuire, Dunboyne, Meath”.

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

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 81: In page 58, line 14, to delete “Co. Donegal” and substitute “Donegal”.

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

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 82: In page 58, line 15, to delete “Co. Clare” and substitute “Clare”.

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

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 83: In page 58, line 21, to delete “Ennis” and substitute “Ennis, Clare”.

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

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 84: In page 58, to delete line 22 and substitute the following: “Cork County Home and District/ St Finbarr’s Hospital”.

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

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 85: In page 58, to delete line 27 and substitute the following: “Dublin Union/St Kevin’s Institution”.

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

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 66: In page 33, line 30, to delete "person." and substitute "person, or".

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

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 67: In page 33, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following: "(d) a person who has reasonable grounds for suspecting that he or she is the subject of an incorrect birth registration, for the purpose of the Agency or Authority conducting such enquires as it considers necessary for the purpose of ascertaining whether he or she is the subject of an incorrect birth...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 68: In page 33, line 36, to delete "Authority" and substitute "Agency". These are very technical amendments. The first is a technical amendment to section 32(3)(c) as it refers erroneously to the authority instead of the agency. This section relates to an application for tracing. It is the agency that is the lead in tracing, and the applications will be made to...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 69: In page 34, line 2, to delete "pursuant to an authorisation" and substitute "or obtaining information pursuant to a direction".

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

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 70: In page 34, to delete lines 21 to 26 and substitute the following: "Minister may authorise Agency and Authority to conduct review or trace 33. (1) The Minister, where he or she is satisfied that it is necessary and in the public interest to do so, may, by direction in writing, require the Agency or the Authority to do either or both of the following: (a)...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 71: In page 34, lines 28 to 31, to delete all words from and including "On" in line 28 down to and including line 31 and substitute the following: "On receipt by it of an application under section 32, or a direction under section 33, the Agency or the Authority shall, without undue delay, take all reasonable steps in accordance with any guidelines issued under...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 72: In page 35, to delete lines 22 to 25 and substitute the following: "(8) Where the Agency or Authority, having taken the steps referred to in subsection (1)— (a) in the case of an application under section 32, is unable to locate the person 13 concerned or, in the case of an application under subsection (2)(d)of that section, to ascertain whether a...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 73: In page 37, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following: "(g) where a parent of a relevant person is deceased, a person who, in the opinion of the Authority, had a sufficiently close connection with the parent that he or she is likely to be in possession of information that the relevant person would be willing to be provided with;". This is another...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: I would like to come in at this point because Deputy Bacik used the term "outlier" in terms of the Bill. 7 o’clock The Bill in no way makes us an outlier. We are an outlier now, and this Bill brings us into compliance with where Europe is in terms of the release of birth information and puts us far in advance of a number of European countries. A number of European countries had...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 62: In page 30, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following: “(3) A relevant body shall, no later than one month after the date on which it receives an application made in accordance with the section concerned— (a) comply, as applicable, with section 21(2), 22(2)or 23(3), (b) comply, as applicable, with section 21(5)or 22(4), or (c) where...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 63: In page 32, to delete lines 29 to 31 and substitute the following: “(2) Subject to this section, a relevant body, on application to it made in accordance with subsection (1)— (a) shall, to the extent that it is practicable to do so, provide the applicant concerned with a copy of the records specified in subsection (4)that it holds that contain the...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 64: In page 33, between lines 8 and 9, to insert the following: “(3) A relevant body shall, no later than one month after the date on which it receives an application made in accordance with the section concerned— (a) comply, as applicable, with section 27(2), 28(2), 29(2)or 30(2), (b) comply, as applicable, with section 27(5), 28(4)or 30(3), or (c)...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 65: In page 33, to delete line 27. This is a particularly important group of amendments. Deputy Bacik referred to them earlier. They provide for further services for persons who believe that their birth was illegally registered. These are services that are recommended by the special rapporteur for child protection, Professor Conor O'Mahony, in the report which he...