548. Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in view of the Children's Referendum and the fact that there are 50,000 adopted persons here who do not have an automatic right to their birth certificate, their medical information or history, or the right to trace information about their identity, if she will consider introducing legislation to provide for the basic legal rights of adopted persons before they are legally adopted and align them with the rights allocated to other citizens of the State; if the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill will include the adopted child's right to their name, the right to know their parents, the right of the child to preserve their identity including nationality, name and family relations as outlined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42718/12]

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548. Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in view of the Children's Referendum and the fact that there are 50,000 adopted persons here who do not have an automatic right to their birth certificate, their medical information or history, or the right to trace information about their identity, if she will consider introducing legislation to provide for the basic legal rights of adopted persons before they are legally adopted and align them with the rights allocated to other citizens of the State; if the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill will include the adopted child's right to their name, the right to know their parents, the right of the child to preserve their identity including nationality, name and family relations as outlined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42718/12]

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