Some time ago the Taoiseach made a commitment that people who had been adopted would have a right, as they have had in most other countries for the past 40 to 50 years, to get information about their birth families when they came of age at 18. There is no mention of it in this legislative programme, however, so has it fallen off the legislative shelf? The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Zappone, made a number of commitments in the House and in writing about this matter, but I do not see it anywhere in the draft legislative programme.

I know that Deputy Burton has a real interest in this matter. The legislation is in the Seanad, as far as I know, and will move through that House before it comes here. Therefore, it is not a case of it being waylaid or forgotten about; it is before the Seanad at the moment.