First Stage Lapsed 32nd Dáil 5/2019
Informal Adoptions (Regularisation) Bill 2019
- Sponsor
- Joan Burton
- Introduced
- 29 Jan 2019
- Last updated
- 13 Feb 2020
Plain-English summary AI · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
- Allows people informally adopted in Ireland to gain legal recognition of their adoption status.
- Provides a process to regularise adoptions that occurred outside formal legal channels.
- Bill lapsed and did not progress; practical effects and specific procedures unknown without further legislative action.
Stage timeline
- First Stage 32nd Dáil29 Jan 2019