A local adoption rights campaigner has warned that issues still remain despite legislation that was approved by Cabinet yesterday.
It will be the first time adoptees will have a blanket guarantee for access to their early life documents.
However, Cavan-based Claire McGettrick is "concerned" for people whose parents don't want to be contacted.
Where the birth mother expressed a wish for privacy, an information session will be held with a social worker - but the name will still be released.
Minister Roderic O'Gorman says it balances the right to privacy of the birth parents with the rights of adopted people.
But Claire, who is the co-founder of the Adoption Rights Alliance, told the Joe Finnegan Show that people shouldn't be "funnelled" into a meeting with a social worker:
