Andrew Doyle (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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380. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide an outline of the staffing resources at the Adoption Authority of Ireland; if this has increased or decreased in the past number of years; if she will provide the specific figures of staff employed in the Adoption Authority in the area of inter-country adoption; if she will confirm that current staffing levels in the area of inter-country adoption are sufficient enough to allow for inter-country adoption to resume here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43576/13]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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The Adoption Authority of Ireland has advised that it currently employs 25 staff (24.1 whole time equivalent). Issues in relation to staffing within the Adoption are a matter for the Authority as a quasi-judicial independent body. As such, I have asked the Authority to respond directly to the Deputy.