IRELAND
Irish Independent
Referendum may be needed to help children find out about their birth parents, says Taoiseach
John Downing
Published 12/06/2014
Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said a referendum may be needed to clear a planned law helping adoptive children get more information about their birth parents.
Mr Kenny’s comments came as Social Protection Minister Joan Burton spoke for the first time since the mother-and-baby home controversy about her own circumstances as an adopted child.
Ms Burton said she also understood constitutional difficulties – but insisted that adopted children should have access to information about their origins.
Speaking in the Dail, the Taoiseach said the issue of adoptive children getting information on their backgrounds was full of legal difficulties.
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