Zappone declines to give deadline for publication of report into illegal birth registrations

Children's Minister Katherine Zappone has declined to give a deadline for the publication of the long-delayed report into illegal birth registrations.

The report will be based on the results of a scoping exercise announced in May last year 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.