Written answers
Wednesday, 5 May 2010
Department of Health and Children
Adoption Services
9:00 pm
Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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Question 186: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress made, if any, to facilitate the completion of adoptions in Vietnam by persons who were promised assistance in completing such adoptions almost a year ago; and if she will clarify the current position. [18100/10]
Barry Andrews (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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It remains my intention to assist 20 named applicants to complete intercountry adoptions in respect of children from Vietnam on an exceptional basis and insofar as it is practicable in law. In communicating the decision to suspend the bilateral negotiations the Irish Government asked the Vietnamese Government whether it will be possible to proceed with these adoptions. The Vietnamese response was not definitive. The Government is attempting to put in place a mechanism in respect of these 20 applicants that safeguards against recent concerns raised in relation to intercountry adoption in Vietnam.
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