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Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I confirm that I am in Leinster House 2000. I read Mr. Sunderland’s statement, and I followed his delivery of it. The one thing I wanted to home in on was article 15.4 of the GDPR. We are trying, insofar as is possible, to scrutinise this legislation, and ensure that when it comes out the other end is that it is very much favourable to the survivors and victims of the mother and...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

...of the Data Protection (Access Modification) (Health) Regulations 1989 from the Department in respect of access requests made regarding the database of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and Certain Related Matters. We understand from the public commentary that this has been very difficult. People have been waiting a very long time to make these access requests...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Ms Sinéad Gibney: I thank the committee for its invitation to this meeting. IHREC is Ireland's independent national human rights institution and national equality body. Our commission of 15 met in plenary today and approved our written recommendations to this committee, which will we send on later. This legislation engages significant rights issues, including the rights to identity,...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: Is there? Right. My follow-up question was about counselling and how there should be counselling, while also being aware that people perhaps cannot go to a counsellor in their town. I tend to think of things in Dublin because I am from Dublin and have always lived there but there are challenges when you are out in a rural community, that I know have already had to be overcome in the...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

...: I thank the committee again for the opportunity to be here. We believe that the principles of transitional justice really must inform all of the activities of the Oireachtas in dealing with the mother and baby homes and the various pieces of legislation. While understanding that this is broader than the survivors of the mother and baby homes, legislators must understand that it is so...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Kathleen Funchion: ...I get agreement to publish the opening statement to the Oireachtas website? Agreed. As this is our final public meeting before the recess, I thank all members of the committee for their patience and understanding and all their work since January. I wish to say a particular and sincere thank you to the staff in our secretariat, who do a huge amount of work, sometimes in the background....

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Mr. Dale Sunderland: I might add that we are not convinced. As Mr. Murphy said, we have questioned the application by the Department in this context. We believe that this regulation was never intended for medical records held in the context of mother and baby homes. There are one or two options. Either the statutory instrument is amended, and that is what the Department has indicated, or...