Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 26 June 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

Adoption in Ireland: Discussion

11:30 am

Ms Celia Loftus:

May I add to that? When it was 300 or so adoptions in a year, a huge number came from Vietnam. Vietnam has now reduced the numbers being let out. It is the countries that are deciding. India is also deciding that it has sufficient services and resources in that country to care for its children at home. It is not about us saying the country must be Hague-compliant or, if the country is Russia or Ethiopia, that we must have an agreement with them. We will process whatever child they refer to us. It is not about us deciding those numbers.

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