Commission won’t say if it contacted adoption authority on report

The Mother and Baby Homes Commission has refused to confirm whether or not it contacted the Adoption Authority (AAI) about a section in its second interim report dealing with illegal birth registrations.

The section in question outlines a scenario where a child is illegally registered as the natural child of the ‘adoptive’ parents but there is an adoption order.

The report states: “In these cases, the Adoption Authority of Ireland have records and, if there was an adoption society involved, that society should have records.