Adopted adults have a right to know details

I READ the recent article in the Irish Examiner concerning historic rights of adopted adults by Claire O’Sullivan.

I was upset at the flippant remark made by Minister Frances Fitzgerald in her radio interview with Pat Kenny (June 2) when she said that historic tracing will not be made available to adopted adults and that “some people will be disappointed”.

As an adopted adult I feel very strongly that just because my birth mother doesn’t want anything to do with me is not a good enough reason for me not to have access to my file.