Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 19 February 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

General Scheme of the Miscellaneous Provisions (Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union on 29 March 2019) Bill 2019: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs

Ms Éimear Fisher:

I have no idea what will happen because I cannot predict what the UK will do in this regard. Our understanding is clear that the Hague Convention Act will apply. There is no impediment of any sort to the placing of children in other jurisdictions or the UK jurisdiction should it leave with a no-deal Brexit. We are quite confident that the Act will continue to apply. I have no way of knowing, however, how Britain will behave.

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