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This year
2024
Over 2,800 applications to Tusla's tracing service still awaiting social worker allocation
All time
Adoption Authority boss says timelines to process birth information were 'too tight'
Opinion: 'I still don’t know why my name is Claire McGettrick and not Caitríona Palmer'
Claire McGettrick
Waiting time for adopted people to get birth information triples to 90 days