Minister says proposed law would allow for release of information regardless of parents’ wishes
The minister for children, Roderic O’Gorman, said the new law sought to end Ireland’s ‘outlier status’ on the issue.The minister for children, Roderic O’Gorman, said the new law sought to end Ireland’s ‘outlier status’ on the issue.Ireland will allow adopted people automatic access to their birth records for the first time under new laws the government hopes will end a “historic wrong”, including for thousands sent for adoption in secret by Catholic institutions.
Ireland’s minister for children, Roderic O’Gorman, said the law, if enacted, would provide for the full and unredacted release of birth, early life and medical information to anyone over the age of 16, regardless of their parents’ wishes.