Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 13 June 2019
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs
9:00 am
Dr. Fergal Lynch:
I do not have figures for the number of foreign adoptions but the system is continuing. It is easier in the Hague convention countries but with some other countries that have expressed an interest in becoming involved or where the Adoption Authority of Ireland has been interested in involving them, it is a more involved process because it requires a bilateral treaty and a Government decision and so on. However, the existing system with the existing countries is operating.
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