Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report Stage
Dail Éireann — 2022-04-27
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Holly Cairns (SD), Cork South-West

The Minister just spoke about the need for a culture change in the context of releasing information to adopted people. We all know the history of that not really happening and of bodies trying to keep it hidden under the carpet. The Minister then said that his Department will be tasked with trying to change that culture not only within the Department itself but within organisations like Tusla and the AAI. I do not know on what planet it makes sense to task the very organisation that has potentially created that culture with trying to change it. It is not a practical approach to effecting the kind of change about which the Minister is talking. The very institution that has created a culture is bound to have an inherent aversion to changing it and it is really important to note that. If we need a change in culture, we should not ask the institutions that have that culture problem to implement that change.

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Sitting date: 2022-04-27