Report on scoping exercise into illegal birth registrations delayed for second time

The report of the Government's scoping exercise into illegal birth registrations has been delayed for a second time and will not be finalised now until April - almost a year after it was announced.

The scoping exercise was announced by Children's Minister, Katherine Zappone, at the end of May following the discovery by Tusla of 126 cases in which births were illegally registered between 1946 and 1969 in the records of St Patrick’s Guild. The records transferred to the agency in 2016.