Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I have asked the Adoption Authority to respond. I ask the couple to make all the information the Deputy has put on the record available to the authority. The authority has to take full account of the law as it stands, and it must take into account the best interest of the child in any decision it takes. I do not have the power to intervene in individual cases but I have asked that the various matters and the individual issue the Deputy raised be responded to by the authority as soon as possible.

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