Second Stage Stage in the legislative process — click for what it means Lapsed The bill’s status — click for what it means 25th Seanad The House currently handling the bill 100/2016 Official bill number / year
Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016
- Sponsor
- Minister for Children and Youth Affairs
- Introduced
- 23 Nov 2016
- Last updated
- 20 Apr 2020
What this bill does AI · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
- Adoption Authority collects and maintains adoption records from various sources; Child and Family Agency provides tracing service to locate adopted persons, birth parents, and relatives.
- Adopted persons aged 18+ can access birth certificate info, medical history, and birth parent details; birth parents can access info about adopted person with consent.
- Register of Adoption Contact Enquiries records contact preferences of adopted persons, birth parents, relatives; Agency facilitates contact between parties based on stated preferences.
Stage timeline What do these stages mean?
- First Stage 25th Seanad23 Nov 2016
- Second Stage 25th Seanad17 May 2017
Debates
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