Seanad debates

Thursday, 8 May 2003

National Standards for Foster Care: Statements.

 

I was delighted to hear the Minister of State say that legislation will be introduced at the end of the summer. Having met some of those people who were adopted as children, I am aware of the urgency of their situation because they see themselves and their birth parents getting older and the possibility of meeting them receding. It is most important that some sense of urgency is brought to this situation. This legislation can come before the Houses of the Oireachtas and we can trash it out, line by line. Things do not have to be kept in the Department forever. As the Minister of State knows, the Seanad is a very sympathetic and receptive place in which to introduce legislation that perhaps needs less party political discussion. He has received nothing but encouragement this morning for what he is doing.

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