Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I cannot accept this amendment, although I understand the spirit of it. Part 7 of the Bill, which relates to the safeguarding of records, has been carefully developed to provide clarity to the adoption authority and to the holders of records. The authority must have the ability to consider whether records are in fact relevant and I believe it is far more sensible and practical for the authority to have control over the type of record being transferred and the timing of that transfer.