Adoption Authority calls for information archive
Updated / Wednesday, 16 Dec 2020
10:23
Since 2005 over 15,000 people have joined a register of birth parents who wish to meet their children or share information
The Adoption Authority of Ireland has called for the establishment of a national archive of information on adoptions to honour and respect the very sensitive and important historical information that exists.
Chief Executive Patricia Carey said that 48,000 people have been adopted in Ireland since 1953. If you multiply that up there are half a million people in Ireland in some way affected by adoption, she said.
Speaking to RTÉ s Morning Ireland, she said that vast tracts of information on adoptions exists and it is time we put that together in one place in a national archive.