IRELAND
Irish Examiner
September 4, 2018
By Conall Ó Fátharta
Campaigners have called on the Department of Children and Youth Affairs to explain why it “buried” evidence on illegal birth registrations it was given by the Adoption Authority of Ireland (AAI) in 2015.
It comes as the Irish Examiner revealed yesterday that the State’s regulatory body for adoption sent three reports on illegal birth registrations — including a spreadsheet of 90 cases — to the department in 2015, three years before the St Patrick’s Guild illegal birth registrations scandal broke.
Campaign groups have reacted angrily to the news and have questioned why no action was taken in 2015 on foot of detailed information supplied by the AAI.
Paul Redmond of the Coalition of Mother and Baby Homes Survivors (CMABS) said he was appalled that Children’s Minister Katherine Zappone had access to this material in her department and accused her of “burying the truth”.
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