Seanad debates

Wednesday, 11 March 2009

Adoption Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed)

 

12:00 pm

Photo of Frances FitzgeraldFrances Fitzgerald (Fine Gael)

We will say full adoption. My point is that practice has gone beyond this in the sense that many adoption agencies and those working with mothers would set up a situation where birthday cards and letters and photographs are sent to the natural mother and significant events are recorded for her in letters. This is the practice and there are also examples of actual contact between natural mother and child, by agreement. The practice is ahead of what the Minister of State describes and there is scope for the law to reflect this and to formalise it. I ask the Minister of State to examine this issue. I understand there may well be constitutional issues but I ask that he examine it and see if there is scope and if it is constitutional for the Bill to include some recognition of this reality and some provision that would address it.

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