Adoption Services
Dail Éireann — 2023-03-30
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Roderic O'Gorman (GP), Dublin West

If the Deputy wishes to draw a specific instance to my attention, where an individual has received less information, she can do that. I have always engaged with Deputies when they had concerns about information issues. I will not comment as I would like to see the information. If we can provide a resolution, we will do so.
In terms of the processing, there are delays which I know are deeply concerning for survivors, many of who waited for a long time. We added in those statutory timeframes on Committee Stage. We discussed it here and felt it was a good idea to add timeframes like in other pieces of access to information, such as freedom of information, FOI. At the start of this process, we saw a huge surge for access to information but we are processing those requests. As I said, just under 3,000 people have now received their information and we will continue to ensure resources are put in place across the two organisations so we can get through that backlog and back into a system where we are meeting the requests for information within the statutory timeframes.

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Sitting date: 2023-03-30