Brian Walsh (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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220. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the Irish Adoption Authority will engage with its counterpart in the Philippines with a view to removing or increasing the recently applied limit on the number of Filipino children approved for adoption by Irish parents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19337/13]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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The Republic of the Philippines is an independent sovereign state. As such it is a matter for the Filipino authorities to decide the manner in which they choose to implement the Hague Convention, including the numbers of children deemed suitable for inter-country adoption having regard to the principles of the Convention.