Political Reporter
The Adoption Rights Alliance has welcomed confirmation that a referendum will not be required to give survivors of Mother and Baby Homes access to their records.
The Government will now proceed in bringing forward legislation on information and tracing.
At present, survivors of mother and baby homes have not been able to access documents which they say contain crucial information about their identity.
These files may hold details around medical treatment in their early days or how they came to be separated from their birth mothers.
Efforts by the last Government to change the law were stalled after the then Attorney General advised that unrestricted access would be unconstitutional.