Campaigners demand full state inquiry into illegal adoptions and falsified death certs

The Minister for Children Roderic O’Gorman welcomed the report into illegal adoptions, registrations and falsified death certificates, stating he would act on some of the recommendations.

Campaigners have demanded a full state inquiry into the illegal adoptions, registrations and falsified death certificates of children after a new report found the State knew about the practice for decades.

The Special Rapporteur on Child Protection Professor Conor O'Mahony has said the State was aware of the practice of illegal birth registration before any serious action was taken, and its "ad hoc, piecemeal, delayed" reaction to it "has added significantly to the trauma caused".