Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 22 February 2005
60 Mr. Bruton asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the circumstances in which a person who has been adopted can get information about his or her birth name and his or her natural parents; and if there are plans to modify these requirements. [5609/05]
View answerAn adopted person wishing to trace natural family should contact the agency that handled his or her adoption. If the person does not know the name of the agency involved, he or she may contact the Adoption Board for advice. The Adoption Board working with the various representative groups is currently finalising plans for a contact preference register which will aim to facilitate contact between adopted people and their natural families. This register will initially be established on an administrative basis, but it also forms part of the adoption legislation proposals approved by Government in December on foot of the adoption consultation process.
