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

With respect to the monitoring of any potential blockages, the implementation group, comprising the Department, Tusla and the Adoption Authority of Ireland, AAI, will be working to understand how the implementation is taking place. We also have the stakeholder reference group that is being brought together. It will include people who were adopted, parents and people who were the subjects of illegal birth registrations. That will be a group of people who will have a sense of the implementation of this legislation.

The Senator asked about the capacity under section 43(1). That section states:

The Minister may, for the purposes of paragraph (e)of the definition in section 2 of "relevant record" prescribe a record, or a class of record, to be a relevant record, where the Minister is of the opinion that— (a) it relates to the care of a child or of children,

(b) were it not to be prescribed under this subsection, it or a part of it would be at risk of being destroyed or otherwise lost, and

(c) having regard to its historical or social value, it is in the public interest that it be prescribed under this subsection.

There are significant powers under section 43(1).