Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)

-----to have compensation claims addressed. Will the Taoiseach address the matter urgently as it is a simple matter to amend the Bill? Is it intended to make that decision to facilitate the passage of amending legislation in the House before the summer recess? Many people are now affected by the matter and it should not be left over.

Is there an intention on the part of the Government to bring before the House prior to the recess the provisions of a new treaty, which must be approved by this House, between the State and Vietnam with regard to foreign adoptions? There is a substantial difficulty in this area and every Member of this House has met and spoken with distraught people who have been approved for foreign adoption but find themselves in no-man's land.

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