Clare Daly (Dublin North, Socialist Party)
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176. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the access and rights that will be afforded to adopted people in tracing their genealogy as part of the Irish genealogy. [19157/13]

Jimmy Deenihan (Kerry North-West Limerick, Fine Gael)
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As the Deputy may be aware, the issue of adoption is dealt with by my colleague, the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Ms Frances Fitzgerald, T.D.

My Department runs a website , which has two main elements. The first element contains almost 3 million Church records of births, marriages and burials, which may be searched free of charge. The second element is a recently launched webportal, which enables users to search genealogy records from a number of on-line sources. The website is free to access and contains no restrictions surrounding access to records held on the site.