Written answers

Tuesday, 3 November 2009

Department of Health and Children

Inter-Country Adoptions

8:00 pm

Photo of Paul GogartyPaul Gogarty (Dublin Mid West, Green Party)
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Question 592: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her Minister of State with responsibility for children will meet an organisation (details supplied) in view of the request made by that organisation for a meeting and the expertise built up by that group in relation to adoptions from Ethiopia; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39072/09]

Photo of Barry AndrewsBarry Andrews (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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I met with this organisation on the 30th of October 2009.

Photo of Paul GogartyPaul Gogarty (Dublin Mid West, Green Party)
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Question 595: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the formal assessment process which exists for sole applicants wishing to adopt from overseas; if none exists, if there are plans to formalise such a process with all the necessary checks and balances; her views on whether sole applicants, with the necessary checks and balances, make excellent adoptive parents and would benefit from more clarity in this process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39075/09]

Photo of Barry AndrewsBarry Andrews (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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Section 10 of the Adoption Act 1991 allows for a sole applicant to adopt a child. This provision has been carried forward in the Adoption Bill 2009.

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