Clare Daly (Dublin North, Socialist Party)
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Question 609: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the annual costs of providing search and reunion services to adopted persons and natural parents; and the amount of Adoption Authority of Ireland and Health Service Executive annual budgets that are spent on these activities. [8134/12]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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The Adoption Authority has advised that the direct payroll cost to the Agency for providing information and tracing services is in the region of €300,000 per annum.

I have been informed by the HSE that the overall cost to provide information and tracing services nationally by the HSE is in the region of €3 million. This includes salary, travel, office and administration costs.