No date for report on scoping exercise

The Government has refused to give a date for the publication of a report from the long-delayed scoping exercise into the practice of illegal birth registrations.

The scoping exercise, which was due to have finished in October of last year, was announced by Minister for Children Katherine Zappone in May 2018 following the discovery by Tusla of 126 cases in which births were illegally registered between 1946 and 1969 in the records of the former St Patrick’s Guild adoption agency.