Seanad debates

Wednesday, 18 May 2022

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage

 

10:30 am

Photo of Alice-Mary HigginsAlice-Mary Higgins (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 8:

In page 9, between lines 36 and 37, to insert the following: “(b) records about the person, including correspondence and other records associated with the administrative process surrounding the relevant person’s care.”.

This is a consequential amendment. It follows from the committee’s pre-legislative scrutiny report, which recommends that the Bill be amended to provide for statutory right of access to administrative records, wherever they are held, of all adoption institutes, adoption agencies, institutions, State bodies and others involved in forced family separation for natural birth mothers, survivors, adopted people and other people placed in care.

On amendment No. 9-----

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