Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Additional staff will be necessary within the Department to oversee the scheme. An IT infrastructure will have to be created to support the application process. We will undertake an information campaign to make people aware of their rights. As the Deputy knows, we undertook a significant information campaign on foot of the Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022. It has come up in discussions that the Department will be undertaking an international campaign, as we did with the 2022 Act, to make people outside of the country aware of what we are doing. A substantial number of people who have left the country will be entitled to make an application under the scheme.

These are a number of the measures that will be supported by the €10 million. This work is under way, which is why the money needs to be in the budget line at the start of the year.