Paul Bradford (Fine Gael)

I do not in any way have the expertise, the knowledge or the access to the fine legal tomes as has Senator Bacik. I raised this matter on Second Stage. I am far removed from professional expertise in law and I thought this section was very new whereas it is a transposition of the 1998 Bill, if I am correct. Has the Minister of State any indication as to the number of adoption orders which have issued under this section and whether its genesis stretches back further than 1998? Is it used very infrequently or slightly more frequently? Is there a number put on the orders which have issued under the said circumstances which would have led to the interventions described?