Political Reporter
Minister for Children Roderic O Gorman has said that an outline of tracing legislation allowing former residents of mother-and-baby homes to access their personal information will be published by late March or early April.
He told the Seanad that the bill was a Government priority and the right of an individual to access their information would be central to the legislation, based on GDPR.
Minister O Gorman also said that he understood that some elements of the report were disappointing to survivors, where a strictly legalistic approach was taken and where conclusions of no evidence could be interpreted as a denial of the experience of survivors.