Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed)
Seanad Éireann — 2022-06-01
============================================================

Mary Seery Kearney (FG), Nominated by the Taoiseach

Perhaps we need to look at guidelines or a statutory instrument under the Bill. Perhaps the functioning of the specialist tracing team needs to be spelled out more clearly in terms of how it is going to function. If there is no information and there has clearly been a wrongful registration, be it that whatever happened was done illegally or mistakenly, a specialist tracing team was envisaged by the Minister in his own undertakings and arising from the Conor O'Mahony report, but we also have the possibility of a further undertaking, statutory or otherwise, that looks into all of the illegal registrations. Perhaps such a mechanism would be possible and that it could be done by guidelines or statutory instrument so that it would be one of the things that would trigger the specialist team to act. There could be a means of linking it into the Act. It could be too prescriptive to go into the Act, but the guidelines that flow from the Act could consider that.

---

Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted.

Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/seanad/2022-06-01/debate/main
Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:50:32+00:00
Sitting date: 2022-06-01