Paudge Connolly (Cavan-Monaghan, Independent)
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Question 158: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the status of the Irish Vietnamese adoption application of persons (details supplied) in County Monaghan and other prospective adoptive parents who have paid considerable sums of money to a person who has been instructed by the Irish Adoption Board to desist from adoption facilitation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24560/06]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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The Adoption Board is enquiring into certain anonymous allegations made against the named individual. Immediately on receiving the allegations the Adoption Board raised the matter with the Ministry of Justice in Vietnam.

The Adoption Board has also:

(i) asked the Gardai to check the veracity of the allegations; and

(ii) written to the registered Adoption Mediation Agency concerned (Helping Hands) advising it that the named individual should abstain from any involvement in Vietnamese adoptions until this investigation has been completed.

It is not considered that these enquiries will affect the status of the Vietnamese adoption applications made by the persons referred to and other prospective adoptive parents.