Barry Andrews (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

That would be to assume the various other appointments, specifically, a social worker with experience in adoption practice, a social worker with research expertise in child welfare and protection, a barrister and solicitor with experience of practice in the law relating to families and children, a medical practitioner and a person trained in psychology, would not have sufficient experience to represent adopted persons and that there would be a gap in that experience needing to be filled by the appointment of a person who has himself or herself been adopted. I hope those five persons, not to mention the chair, vice chair, chief executive and other staff, would be adequately able to represent the interests of adopted persons and ensure the adoption authority functions properly and carries out its functions as well as possible.