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This year
2024
Tusla struggling to recruit social workers amid large increase in child welfare referrals, CEO says
Last year
2023
'A punch in the gut': Tusla apologises as adopted people wait up to a year for personal records
Officials warned that lack of social workers would delay giving adopted people their records
All time
'A historic moment': Adopted people can access information about their birth from today
Almost 900 people sign up to adoption tracing system - 32 have 'no contact' preference
Adopted people to get access to their birth certs and other records under new legislation
Roderic O'Gorman: We hope today's legislation will right decades of wrongs against adopted people
Roderic O'Gorman
Adopted people will no longer have to attend mandatory information session when seeking records
Adoption tracing legislation ‘risks being found unconstitutional’, O'Gorman tells Committee
O'Gorman says term 'birth mother' is 'reductive and hurtful' ahead of legislation debate
'Groundbreaking' legislation will give adopted people access to birth certs and early life information
O'Gorman says adopted people will get birth certs and other information under new legislation