Terence Flanagan (Dublin North East, Independent)
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621. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of Irish women who placed their child for adoption over the past five years; the amount of State money that goes into funding and promoting adoption services for such women; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49362/13]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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The Adoption Authority of Ireland Annual Reports contain details of the numbers of non-family domestic adoptions. The figures are as follows: in 2008 there were 49 non-family domestic adoptions, in 2009 there were 42, in 2010 there were 35, in 2011 there were 23 and in 2012 there were 16.

As the Health Service Executive is the body with responsibility for the delivery of domestic adoption services, I have asked the HSE to respond directly to the Deputy in relation to funding and promoting these services.