Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 26 June 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

Adoption in Ireland: Discussion

10:40 am

Ms Susan Lohan:

Yes, because that was the case with Vietnam in 2009.

I make no apology for repeating that these countries feature in Transparency International's index of corruption. They have a poor standard of public service among their civil services. Civil servants receive low remuneration and often kickbacks are the only means of maintaining a living wage. It is common sense. All the evidence is out there. Given our historical record of corruption as a sending country in the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, we know all too well the degree to which this entire industry - it is an industry for criminals in certain countries - can be corrupted. It is naive to say it will not occur.

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