In May 2001, the Government approved the drafting of a Bill dealing with adoption information, post-adoption contact and associated issues. The proposals included the provision of personal information as a right to all parties to adoption and the establishment of a voluntary contact register, a State-funded tracing and reunion service, a contact veto register, a national search service and a national files index. Personal information has been excluded from freedom of information legislation because of the complexities of adoption legislation and the sensitive nature of adoption. The proposals approved by the Government aimed to provide information in a structured manner and would have met the standards of information provision set down in the freedom of information legislation.