Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The international statistics are welcome in so far as this is about children in the first instance, and giving young children a new chance of a home for their care and happiness through life. However, it is important to recognise that there has been a very poor level of success in progressing post-Hague inter-country adoptions for families here. Rosita Boland wrote a very fine article earlier this month in The Irish Times and I understand from it that there have only been 11 adoptions since the Hague enactment on 1 November 2010. That is a very low number. It is fair to say that there were 457 adoptions over the same period-----

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