Adoptees criticise bill aimed at giving birth cert access  

Children's Minister Roderic O’Gorman intends to bring forward the Birth Information and Tracing Bill to the Dáil next week. Picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins

Adoptees have expressed serious disappointment with long-anticipated legislation aimed at giving access to birth certs and other personal information.

Publishing the bill, Children's Minister Roderic O'Gorman said that for decades in this country, adopted people have been failed in being denied clear access to their identity information.