Barry Andrews (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

It would be wrong not to include an adoptive parent and many others who are affected by adoption. However, the adoption authority is intended to be the body responsible for the making of adoption orders and the expertise required to carry out that quasi-judicial function would be of a high level. The interests of adopted persons and of other categories of person I have described will be and have been represented adequately by the current board.