Ms Alice McEvoy:

Ms Kiernan and Ms McDermott were talking about illegal adoptions or not being adopted. There needs to be an inquiry into illegal adoptions. Looking at my own files, while my signature was not forged, there were irregularities. There was no commissioner of oaths. None of them is perfectly legal, to be honest. That gives a worry to adopted people. If they are not properly adopted, what are they? Most people I have talked to have irregularities in the adoption process, including my own. I only discovered very recently when studying my own files that there were incorrect procedures. There was also incorrect vetting of adoptive parents. I am slow to bring that up but there was a lot of rules broken in the past and it is high time the whole thing was looked into from that angle. There should be a public inquiry into the whole area of illegal adoption.