Dan Boyle (Cork South Central, Green Party)

Our concern is that this is the second motion relating to the Hague Convention in recent weeks. The Government is adopting a piecemeal approach to adoption issues instead of bringing forward large-scale legislative reform in an area that has been left unchanged for several years. There is an onus on the Government to explain to the House why it is not tabling amendments to the adoption Acts which many people anticipate and only moving as little as possible in obligations under this international treaty.

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