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The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs published the General Scheme of the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill (\u2018the General Scheme\u2019) on 27th July 2015 and subsequently forwarded the General Scheme to the Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children for pre-legislative scrutiny and public consultation.<\/p>\n

This submission is being made to the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs pursuant to Section 7 of the Ombudsman for Children Act 2002, which provides that the Ombudsman for Children may give advice on any matter relating to the rights and welfare of children, including the probable effect on children of the implementation of proposals for legislation. The Ombudsman for Children welcomes the publication of the General Scheme of the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2015 and its stated overall purpose to provide a statutory basis for the provision of information related to adoption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":908,"template":"","class_list":["post-907","library","type-library","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","resource_type-advice","resource_type-submission","resource_topic-adoption"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nSubmission by the Ombudsman for Children on the General Scheme of the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2015 - Ombudsman for Children<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oco.ie\/ga\/library\/submission-ombudsman-children-general-scheme-adoption-information-tracing-bill-2015\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ga_IE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Submission by the Ombudsman for Children on the General Scheme of the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2015 - 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