IRELAND
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A FIANNA FÁIL senator who herself was adopted from a mother-and-baby home has called on the government to give all adoptees the right to access their birth certs.
Senator Averil Power has noted that adopted people in the United Kingdom have had access to their original birth cert, which includes their mother’s name and their own original name, since 1975.
“Forty years later, Irish adoptees still don’t have that right,” she said in a statement this afternoon.
Power was adopted from the Temple Hill mother-and-baby home in Dublin
She said the conditions within these homes tell “just half the story”.
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