Frances Fitzgerald (Fine Gael)

I raise, first the disrespect shown to the House; second, the lack of information given to the House; and third, the problems this causes for the many people involved in these adoptions who are greatly concerned about the matter.

If the Minister of State had brought that information to this House it would have been helpful and we might have discussed it. None of us wishes to exaggerate the difficulties or cause concern to the people caught up in this process. That said, we want the debates in this House to be meaningful. I believe the Minister of State should have briefed the House more fully, and not The Irish Times.