Surge in applications to adoption authority for birth information and to trace relatives
Authority says it processed more than 3,500 applications for birth information last year
Adoption Authority of Ireland (AAI)
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Mother and baby institutions payment scheme to open on March 20th
Roderic O’Gorman expects the first payments to be made in quarter two of this year
Adoption reunions at risk due to backlog, Tusla warns
Child and family agency says Birth Information and Tracing service could ‘collapse’ if extra funding is not provided
Adoption body says personal information request backlog now cleared
Delay of almost year ‘unacceptable’ as Adoption Authority of Ireland says it was inundated with applications for birth certificates, birth information, early life, care and medical information
Thousands register their contact preferences on new adoption register
Adoptees comprise the largest group of registrants at 11,246, followed by birth mothers with 2,675 registrants
Court challenge brought over Adoption Authority’s refusal to register foreign adoption of daughter
In their judicial review proceedings against the Adoption Authority of Ireland, Ireland and the Attorney General the couple seek various orders and declarations, including that they are their child’s legal parents
More than 5,000 adopted people yet to receive personal records
Thousands of applications have been made following the enactment of the Birth and Information Tracing legislation, but a significant backlog has built up
More than 1,500 adoptees will not receive documents within statutory deadline
Adoption Authority of Ireland said delay is ‘not satisfactory’
Over 4,000 people apply for previously inaccessible birth records in two weeks
The Birth Information and Tracing Act allows adopted people easier access to birth family information
More than 1,200 applications for birth information in first week of service
Those adopted, boarded out, or whose birth was illegally registered can access information under new law
Almost 1,900 adopted people seek information about births
Minister for Children says repudiating mother and baby homes investigation report would have ‘huge’ unforeseen consequences
More than 400 applications to adoption authority for information
Reformed system gives people much greater access to information about their early life and family
Sister of adopted woman died while request to meet sat in a backlog
Woman calls for quicker processing of cases as new regime for accessing birth information, starting on October 3rd, is likely to be flooded with requests
A wait of many decades to meet my mother
From Monday, October 3rd, adopted people will finally have a right to their birth information, but for many this will be just the start of a long road
Adopted people to get new access to information: ‘My entire life was a lie’
New birth information and tracing system to come into effect from Monday
Majority of people on adoption contact register want to find birth relatives
Service is key aspect of Birth Information and Tracing Act which provides legal entitlement to information for adoptees
Sixteen children adopted abroad by Irish residents last year
Fall in number of overseas adoptions recorded by Adoption Authority of Ireland
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