Written answers

Wednesday, 8 May 2013

Department of Justice and Equality

Child Abduction

Photo of Caoimhghín Ó CaoláinCaoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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154. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of times the Hague Convention on child abduction has been invoked in this State in each of the years 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21600/13]

Photo of Alan ShatterAlan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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The Central Authority for Child Abduction operates in my Department for the purposes of, among other international instruments, the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. The Convention is designed to ensure the prompt return of children who have been removed from one contracting state to another - usually by a parent in defiance of the wishes of the other parent.

The information requested by the Deputy is set out as follows:

YearTotal number of cases processedTotal number of new casesApplications where 1980 Hague Convention invoked onlyApplications where 1980 Hague Convention and Brussels II bis* Regulation invoked
201023314011746
201126114212579
201227614711682
2013 (to date)90611917

* Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/2003 concerning jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgements in matrimonial matters and matters of parental responsibility

Please note some applications would have been processed under other international instruments. Further details are available on my Department's website at www.justice.ie/en/JELR/Pages/International_child_abduction

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