Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)

This is important and if any case is held up by administrative or bureaucratic processes, every effort must be made to overcome them. The Russians want post-adoption reports, and rightly so, and every effort is being made to include that. When the legislation, which is before the Seanad, is enacted we will have a much better basis on which to act. As Deputy Higgins said, it will provide ongoing protection to all children adopted across national borders.

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