Q&A: What does the Birth Information and Tracing Bill mean for adoptees?

Children's Minister Roderic O'Gorman: The Birth Information and Tracing Bill will go before the Oireachtas next week. File picture: Leah Farrell/Rollingnews.ie

Who can access information and what will they have access to?

All people who were adopted, boarded out, the subject of an illegal birth registration or who otherwise have questions in relation to their origins will be able to seek personal information under the bill.