Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 8 November 2022
789. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on Tusla redacting records being released to persons under the Birth Information and Tracing Bill. [55427/22]
View answerThe Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022, and the guidelines that accompany it, are clear that in all cases where birth, early life, care and medical information, as defined in the legislation is available on a record it will be released. No redactions will ever take place in respect of this information. In addition and more broadly, no redactions will ever take place of a person’s own information.
However, records can sometimes contain other third party information which cannot be released to an applicant. For example, an admissions register for a Mother and Baby Institution may contain twenty lines per page, of which, only one line will relate to the applicant, while the other 19 lines will relate to strangers. This information is not the information of the applicant and may be redacted.
