Robert Dowds (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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I thank the Minister and her officials for attending today's meeting. My question relates to the free pre-school year for children. To what extent is that being availed of countrywide, in particular in areas of deprivation? Does the increasing difficulty of the availability of children for adoption here mean there will be an increase in the level of adoptions from Third World countries where many children are abandoned? To what extent are some countries more open than others in terms of the adoption of children?