Irish Examiner view: State was complicit in failed birth registration system

Report by the Special Rapporteur on Child Protection maintains that as many as 20,000 individuals may have been affected by illegal birth registrations

Report found that the State had known of illegal birth registrations for decades and done little about it. Picture: Pexels

The history of adoption in this country and the State’s continuing failure to remedy the many wrongs perpetrated on adoptees remains a shocking story of institutional failing.

This was yet again highlighted yesterday with the publication of the report by the Government’s Special Rapporteur on Child Protection which found that the State had known of illegal birth registrations for decades and done little about it, a point that won’t come as a surprise to our readers.